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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:05,373 --> 00:00:08,576 - IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM, SEXUALLY BASED OFFENSES 2 00:00:08,576 --> 00:00:11,145 ARE CONSIDERED ESPECIALLY HEINOUS. 3 00:00:11,145 --> 00:00:13,347 IN NEW YORK CITY, THE DEDICATED DETECTIVES 4 00:00:13,347 --> 00:00:15,249 WHO INVESTIGATE THESE VICIOUS FELONIES 5 00:00:15,249 --> 00:00:17,051 ARE MEMBERS OF AN ELITE SQUAD 6 00:00:17,051 --> 00:00:18,819 KNOWN AS THE SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT. 7 00:00:18,819 --> 00:00:21,122 THESE ARE THEIR STORIES. 8 00:00:24,125 --> 00:00:26,160 - COME ON. MOVE YOUR FEET. 9 00:00:26,160 --> 00:00:28,396 - OH. 10 00:00:28,396 --> 00:00:30,698 - YEAH, I SPOKE TO THE M.E. AND-- 11 00:00:30,698 --> 00:00:32,466 EXCUSE ME. SORRY. - UH... 12 00:00:32,466 --> 00:00:34,535 YOU WORK HERE? - HOLD UP, CAPTAIN. 13 00:00:34,535 --> 00:00:36,237 - I NEED TO TALK TO A DETECTIVE. 14 00:00:36,237 --> 00:00:37,705 - YOU CAN TALK TO ME. I'M DETECTIVE AMARO. 15 00:00:37,705 --> 00:00:39,840 JUST TAKE A SEAT AT MY DESK. YEAH. 16 00:00:39,840 --> 00:00:42,210 - IT'S ABOUT THIS LETTER WHICH I RECEIVED. 17 00:00:42,210 --> 00:00:44,345 - A LETTER. LOOK, IN A FEW MINUTES. 18 00:00:44,345 --> 00:00:46,114 JUST SIT TIGHT. YEAH, CAPTAIN. 19 00:00:46,114 --> 00:00:48,482 ON YOUR DESK. YEAH, I'LL CHECK. 20 00:00:48,482 --> 00:00:50,084 RIGHT HERE, SIR. 21 00:00:50,084 --> 00:00:51,352 - YOU DON'T KNOW WHO YOU'RE DEALING WITH. 22 00:00:51,352 --> 00:00:52,720 - COME WITH ME. 23 00:00:52,720 --> 00:00:54,322 [loud thud] - COME ON, MAN! 24 00:00:54,322 --> 00:00:55,723 - SIR, SIT DOWN. - LET GO OF ME. 25 00:00:55,723 --> 00:00:57,391 - YOU'RE LYING, YOU SON OF A BITCH! 26 00:00:57,391 --> 00:00:59,427 - SHE IS CERTIFIABLE. - THAT IS ENOUGH. 27 00:00:59,427 --> 00:01:01,662 BOTH OF YOU STOP. TONI, HAVE A SEAT. 28 00:01:01,662 --> 00:01:03,631 CAN YOU PLEASE TELL ME EXACTLY WHAT YOU SAW. 29 00:01:03,631 --> 00:01:05,399 - HE WAS IN MY DAUGHTER'S BEDROOM. 30 00:01:05,399 --> 00:01:06,767 - YOU'RE SAFE NOW, OKAY? 31 00:01:06,767 --> 00:01:08,269 WE'RE GONNA TAKE YOU TO THE HOSPITAL. 32 00:01:08,269 --> 00:01:10,304 - LOCK HIM UP! - I WAS JUST HOLDING HER. 33 00:01:10,304 --> 00:01:11,872 - HOLDING HER? - OH! WHOA, WHOA! 34 00:01:11,872 --> 00:01:14,308 - HEY, TONI, ENOUGH. SIT DOWN! 35 00:01:14,308 --> 00:01:15,876 - WHOA! HEY! [overlapping shouting] 36 00:01:15,876 --> 00:01:17,711 - SHE'S CRAZY. YOU SEE THAT? 37 00:01:19,480 --> 00:01:22,483 [woman sings in German operatically] 38 00:01:22,483 --> 00:01:30,558 * 39 00:01:46,707 --> 00:01:51,145 [dramatic note] - * AH 40 00:01:51,145 --> 00:01:53,414 - HAROLD LASSITER. 75. 41 00:01:53,414 --> 00:01:55,716 RETIRED PRIVATE SCHOOL ENGLISH TEACHER. 42 00:01:55,716 --> 00:01:57,485 NEIGHBOR FOUND HIM. - SUICIDE? 43 00:01:57,485 --> 00:02:00,221 HOW'D WE CATCH THIS? - THEY FOUND MY CARD. 44 00:02:00,221 --> 00:02:01,722 HE MUST HAVE TAKEN IT FROM MY DESK. 45 00:02:01,722 --> 00:02:03,691 HE CAME INTO THE SQUAD ROOM LAST NIGHT. 46 00:02:03,691 --> 00:02:05,459 - LAST NIGHT? IT WAS A ZOO. 47 00:02:05,459 --> 00:02:08,696 - YEAH, I BARELY SPOKE TO HIM. - NICE WORK. 48 00:02:08,696 --> 00:02:11,899 WHAT'D HE WANT? - WE DIDN'T GET THAT FAR. 49 00:02:11,899 --> 00:02:13,734 THIS LETTER WAS ON HIS DESK. 50 00:02:13,734 --> 00:02:16,237 - SUICIDE NOTE? 51 00:02:16,237 --> 00:02:17,905 - NO. I THINK HE HAD IT WITH HIM LAST NIGHT. 52 00:02:17,905 --> 00:02:20,708 IT'S TO HIM. "YOU ABUSED MY TRUST. 53 00:02:20,708 --> 00:02:24,212 "I CAN NEVER ERASE THE IMAGES OF YOUR HANDS ON MY BODY, 54 00:02:24,212 --> 00:02:25,913 MR. LASSITER, I WILL NEVER FORGIVE YOU." 55 00:02:25,913 --> 00:02:27,381 AND THEN HE QUOTES-- 56 00:02:27,381 --> 00:02:29,617 "I AM LOST FOREVER ON THE ENDLESS SEA." 57 00:02:29,617 --> 00:02:31,685 SIGNED CURT. NO LAST NAME. 58 00:02:31,685 --> 00:02:34,388 - THE HANDWRITING APPEARS DIFFERENT--"I AM SORRY." 59 00:02:34,388 --> 00:02:37,225 SO LASSITER GETS CURT'S LETTER, 60 00:02:37,225 --> 00:02:38,859 COMES IN TO CONFESS, AND THEN WHAT-- 61 00:02:38,859 --> 00:02:41,195 DECIDES TO GO A DIFFERENT WAY? 62 00:02:41,195 --> 00:02:45,599 - MAYBE. OR MAYBE CURT DECIDED FOR HIM. 63 00:03:37,785 --> 00:03:39,320 - HAROLD LASSITER 64 00:03:39,320 --> 00:03:40,754 TAUGHT AT MANOR HILL ACADEMY FOR OVER 30 YEARS. 65 00:03:40,754 --> 00:03:42,456 RETIRED IN '02. - MANOR HILL? 66 00:03:42,456 --> 00:03:43,891 - FANCIEST SCHOOL IN THE CITY. 67 00:03:43,891 --> 00:03:45,826 25 ACRES UP IN RIVERDALE. TENNIS COURTS. 68 00:03:45,826 --> 00:03:47,861 KID FROM MY BLOCK GOT A SCHOLARSHIP THERE. 69 00:03:47,861 --> 00:03:50,431 OPENED DOORS. - WELL, NOT FOR CURT. 70 00:03:50,431 --> 00:03:51,965 WE FOUND HIS LETTER IN THE APARTMENT 71 00:03:51,965 --> 00:03:53,033 ALLEGING ABUSE. 72 00:03:53,033 --> 00:03:54,802 LISTEN TO THIS. 73 00:03:54,802 --> 00:03:57,738 "I WAS TOO YOUNG AND POWERLESS TO SAY NO." 74 00:03:57,738 --> 00:03:59,440 - ONE OF LASSITER'S STUDENTS? 75 00:03:59,440 --> 00:04:01,709 - SO WHAT DO WE THINK? CURT WENT THERE FOR A VISIT 76 00:04:01,709 --> 00:04:02,976 AND STAGED A SUICIDE? 77 00:04:02,976 --> 00:04:04,978 - HOLD ON. THERE WAS NO SIGN OF A STRUGGLE. 78 00:04:04,978 --> 00:04:07,014 THE M.E.'S CHECKING TO SEE IF HE WAS KILLED FIRST, 79 00:04:07,014 --> 00:04:08,816 THEN STRUNG UP. 80 00:04:08,816 --> 00:04:11,285 BUT SHE PUTS THE TIME OF DEATH BETWEEN 9:00 AND MIDNIGHT. 81 00:04:11,285 --> 00:04:13,621 - SO IS CURT A VICTIM OR A SUSPECT? 82 00:04:13,621 --> 00:04:14,755 - MAYBE BOTH--EITHER WAY, WE GOTTA TRACK HIM DOWN. 83 00:04:14,755 --> 00:04:16,457 - WELL, HOW ARE WE GONNA DO THAT? 84 00:04:16,457 --> 00:04:18,058 NO LAST NAME. NO PRINT HITS FROM THE LETTER. 85 00:04:18,058 --> 00:04:19,693 - SO WE START WITH MANOR HILL, 86 00:04:19,693 --> 00:04:21,395 GET A LIST OF LASSITER'S STUDENTS. 87 00:04:21,395 --> 00:04:22,830 - THINK SOMEBODY UP AT THAT SCHOOL 88 00:04:22,830 --> 00:04:25,466 WANTS TO TALK ABOUT ABUSE? HAVE A NICE DRIVE. 89 00:04:25,466 --> 00:04:28,869 - WE WILL. AND IN THE MEANTIME, DETECTIVE TUTUOLA, 90 00:04:28,869 --> 00:04:31,372 WHY DON'T YOU CHECK IN ON YOUR FRIEND WITH THE SCHOLARSHIP 91 00:04:31,372 --> 00:04:34,775 AND SEE IF THEY KNEW LASSITER OR CURT. 92 00:04:36,910 --> 00:04:38,746 - MR. LASSITER TAUGHT THOUSANDS OF STUDENTS. 93 00:04:38,746 --> 00:04:40,414 DO YOU HAVE A YEAR? 94 00:04:40,414 --> 00:04:42,015 - WELL, THERE MUST BE AN ALUMNI DATABASE. 95 00:04:42,015 --> 00:04:44,017 - THERE CAN'T BE THAT MANY CURTS WITH A "C." 96 00:04:44,017 --> 00:04:45,986 - NEXT TIME IT'S MANDATORY CONFLICT RESOLUTION, SETH. 97 00:04:45,986 --> 00:04:47,521 TRUST ME. 98 00:04:47,521 --> 00:04:49,390 YOU HAVE BETTER THINGS TO DO. 99 00:04:49,390 --> 00:04:50,924 EVERYTHING OKAY, ROSE? 100 00:04:50,924 --> 00:04:53,627 - THESE ARE SVU DETECTIVES, MR. LENNOX. 101 00:04:53,627 --> 00:04:55,095 - YOU MUST BE THE HEADMASTER. 102 00:04:55,095 --> 00:04:57,631 - THAT'S WHAT THEY TELL ME. 103 00:04:57,631 --> 00:04:59,433 LET'S TALK IN MY OFFICE. 104 00:04:59,433 --> 00:05:02,803 THIS IS... 105 00:05:02,803 --> 00:05:04,805 DISTURBING. 106 00:05:04,805 --> 00:05:07,007 IF IT'S TRUE. 107 00:05:07,007 --> 00:05:09,777 YOU HEAR ABOUT THIS AT OTHER SCHOOLS, BUT... 108 00:05:09,777 --> 00:05:11,745 MANOR HILL-- WE'RE VIGILANT. 109 00:05:11,745 --> 00:05:13,747 I'VE BEEN HERE NINE YEARS, 110 00:05:13,747 --> 00:05:15,783 AND I ASSURE YOU, THIS IS THE FIRST I'M HEARING OF THIS. 111 00:05:15,783 --> 00:05:16,984 - BECAUSE YOU OBVIOUSLY 112 00:05:16,984 --> 00:05:19,587 WOULD HAVE REPORTED ANY ALLEGATIONS. 113 00:05:19,587 --> 00:05:21,054 - OF COURSE. IT'S THE LAW. 114 00:05:21,054 --> 00:05:22,823 DO YOU KNOW WHEN THIS WAS WRITTEN? 115 00:05:22,823 --> 00:05:24,825 - WE DON'T BUT, UH, IT WAS ON LASSITER'S DESK 116 00:05:24,825 --> 00:05:27,628 WHEN HE WAS FOUND DEAD LAST NIGHT. 117 00:05:27,628 --> 00:05:28,929 - MY GOD. WHAT HAPPENED? 118 00:05:28,929 --> 00:05:31,064 - WE'RE WAITING ON THE MEDICAL REPORT. 119 00:05:31,064 --> 00:05:33,467 SO HOW WELL DID YOU KNOW HIM? 120 00:05:33,467 --> 00:05:35,002 - WELL, HE, UH... 121 00:05:35,002 --> 00:05:36,837 HE RETIRED THE SPRING BEFORE I GOT HERE. 122 00:05:36,837 --> 00:05:38,138 BUT I GATHER HE WAS MUCH ADMIRED. 123 00:05:38,138 --> 00:05:40,073 - WELL, EVEN SO, 124 00:05:40,073 --> 00:05:42,510 CURT'S MADE SOME SERIOUS ALLEGATIONS, 125 00:05:42,510 --> 00:05:44,144 AND WE NEED TO FIND HIM. 126 00:05:44,144 --> 00:05:46,747 - WE'LL DO EVERYTHING WE CAN TO HELP, OBVIOUSLY. 127 00:05:46,747 --> 00:05:49,683 - IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME, FIN. - GOOD TO SEE YOU, DAMON. 128 00:05:49,683 --> 00:05:51,885 I FIGURED YOU WAS ON YOUR WAY STRAIGHT TO THE JOINT. 129 00:05:51,885 --> 00:05:53,554 - COULD'VE BEEN. - HI. 130 00:05:53,554 --> 00:05:55,022 - HE TOLD ME WHEN WE WERE KIDS 131 00:05:55,022 --> 00:05:57,425 THAT HE'D HAVE A BEAMER BY THE TIME HE WAS 20. 132 00:05:57,425 --> 00:05:59,560 - I GOT LUCKY. - AND YOU WERE SMART. 133 00:05:59,560 --> 00:06:01,695 YOU GOT A SCHOLARSHIP TO MANOR HILL. 134 00:06:01,695 --> 00:06:03,664 - YEAH, WILL, FIN HERE, HE COULD'VE HAD ONE TOO 135 00:06:03,664 --> 00:06:05,766 IF HE JUST PUT HIS MIND TO IT. - I DON'T LOOK GOOD 136 00:06:05,766 --> 00:06:07,901 IN BLUE BLAZERS. - WELL, IT FITS YOU FINE, MAN. 137 00:06:07,901 --> 00:06:10,838 COME ON, PLEASE. 138 00:06:10,838 --> 00:06:13,507 - UM, SO SPEAKING OF MANOR HILL, 139 00:06:13,507 --> 00:06:15,809 DO YOU KNOW A HAROLD LASSITER? 140 00:06:15,809 --> 00:06:18,879 - OH, YEAH. I HAD HIM FOR ENGLISH. WHY? 141 00:06:18,879 --> 00:06:20,914 - HE WAS FOUND DEAD LAST NIGHT. 142 00:06:20,914 --> 00:06:24,017 WHAT WAS THE WORD ON HIM BACK AT SCHOOL? 143 00:06:24,017 --> 00:06:26,587 - HE WAS A GOOD TEACHER. 144 00:06:26,587 --> 00:06:30,891 - WE'RE NOT...HERE TO TALK ABOUT HIS TEACHING. 145 00:06:32,593 --> 00:06:34,562 - I HEARD SOME THINGS. 146 00:06:34,562 --> 00:06:37,865 - GO ON. - HE GOT A LITTLE TOUCHY-FEELY. 147 00:06:37,865 --> 00:06:41,168 HUGS, WHATNOT, AFTER DRAMA REHEARSALS. 148 00:06:41,168 --> 00:06:42,670 - HE EVER HUG YOU? 149 00:06:42,670 --> 00:06:45,806 - HE TRIED TO. 150 00:06:45,806 --> 00:06:48,676 I MUST HAVE LOOKED LIKE A TARGET. 151 00:06:48,676 --> 00:06:53,447 SCHOLARSHIP KID. JUST HAPPY TO BE THERE. 152 00:06:53,447 --> 00:06:55,415 NOT GONNA ROCK ANY BOATS, YOU KNOW? 153 00:06:57,084 --> 00:07:00,220 - WHAT'D HE DO? 154 00:07:00,220 --> 00:07:02,790 - HE GAVE ME A SHOULDER MASSAGE 155 00:07:02,790 --> 00:07:04,758 AND, UH, SAID IT WAS TO LOOSEN ME UP. 156 00:07:04,758 --> 00:07:06,894 IT DIDN'T. 157 00:07:06,894 --> 00:07:09,763 SO THEN HE TRIED RUBBING ME SOMEWHERE ELSE. 158 00:07:09,763 --> 00:07:12,866 AND I TOLD HIM THAT IF HE EVER DID THAT AGAIN, 159 00:07:12,866 --> 00:07:15,168 I'D BREAK HIS ARM. 160 00:07:15,168 --> 00:07:16,670 - DID YOU REPORT IT? 161 00:07:16,670 --> 00:07:19,773 - NO. HE WAS RIGHT ABOUT ONE THING. 162 00:07:19,773 --> 00:07:22,042 I WASN'T GONNA ROCK ANY BOATS. 163 00:07:22,042 --> 00:07:25,045 - DO YOU REMEMBER A STUDENT NAMED CURT? 164 00:07:25,045 --> 00:07:27,147 - CURT. NO, NOT IN MY CLASS. 165 00:07:27,147 --> 00:07:29,917 - WE'RE TRYING TO TRACK HIM DOWN. 166 00:07:29,917 --> 00:07:34,054 AS AN ALUM, YOU HAVE ACCESS TO THE WEBSITE. 167 00:07:34,054 --> 00:07:37,925 - MANOR HILL SAVED MY LIFE. 168 00:07:37,925 --> 00:07:39,893 I MET PEOPLE WHO ARE STILL MY GOOD FRIENDS, 169 00:07:39,893 --> 00:07:41,895 GOT ME TO THE IVY LEAGUE. 170 00:07:41,895 --> 00:07:43,631 I'M ON THE BOARD. 171 00:07:43,631 --> 00:07:47,535 - YEAH, BUT THIS CURT... 172 00:07:47,535 --> 00:07:50,704 LASSITER...HURT HIM. 173 00:07:50,704 --> 00:07:53,006 OKAY? 174 00:07:53,006 --> 00:07:55,509 AND MAYBE OTHERS TOO. 175 00:07:55,509 --> 00:07:57,878 - THIS WOULD BE BETWEEN JUST YOU AND US, DAMON. 176 00:07:57,878 --> 00:08:00,147 SCHOOL DOESN'T HAVE TO KNOW. 177 00:08:03,551 --> 00:08:05,753 - I'VE GOT A LIST. 178 00:08:05,753 --> 00:08:08,589 EVERY ALUM GOING BACK TO 1886. 179 00:08:08,589 --> 00:08:10,791 THEIR SPORTS TEAMS, THEIR CLUBS. 180 00:08:10,791 --> 00:08:15,829 CURT-- START WITH THE DRAMA CLUB. 181 00:08:17,898 --> 00:08:20,668 - YEAH, THAT WAS ME. ABOUT 30 POUNDS AGO. 182 00:08:20,668 --> 00:08:23,170 MORE HAIR. - AND YOUR DRAMA TEACHER 183 00:08:23,170 --> 00:08:25,138 HAROLD LASSITER? - WE DID BILLY BUD. 184 00:08:25,138 --> 00:08:27,708 - "LOST FOREVER ON THE ENDLESS SEA." 185 00:08:27,708 --> 00:08:29,610 THAT'S IN THE LIBRETTO, RIGHT? 186 00:08:29,610 --> 00:08:32,946 - WHAT'S THIS ABOUT? - DID YOU WRITE THIS, CURT? 187 00:08:32,946 --> 00:08:34,848 - A WHILE AGO. 188 00:08:34,848 --> 00:08:36,183 WHAT, DID LASSITER FILE A COMPLAINT? 189 00:08:36,183 --> 00:08:37,918 HE'S FULL OF CRAP. I NEVER CALLED HIM. 190 00:08:37,918 --> 00:08:39,687 I NEVER WENT NEAR HIM. - SLOW DOWN, CURT. 191 00:08:39,687 --> 00:08:41,889 BUT YOU DID WRITE IT. 192 00:08:41,889 --> 00:08:44,825 - MY NEW THERAPIST THOUGHT IT WOULD HELP. 193 00:08:44,825 --> 00:08:46,827 TO GET SOME OF THE FEELINGS OUT. 194 00:08:46,827 --> 00:08:50,130 YOU LIE TO YOURSELF, SUPPRESS IT FOR SO LONG 195 00:08:50,130 --> 00:08:53,601 IT JUST FEEDS THE DRAGON. 196 00:08:53,601 --> 00:08:54,935 WHAT, DID HE TRY AND DENY IT? 197 00:08:54,935 --> 00:08:57,270 - CAN YOU TELL US WHERE YOU WERE LAST NIGHT? 198 00:08:57,270 --> 00:08:59,740 - I WAS WORKING MY PROGRAM, MY SURVIVORS OF ABUSE GROUP. 199 00:08:59,740 --> 00:09:01,274 WHY? - BECAUSE HAROLD LASSITER 200 00:09:01,274 --> 00:09:03,210 WAS FOUND DEAD LAST NIGHT. 201 00:09:03,210 --> 00:09:04,778 - WHAT? 202 00:09:04,778 --> 00:09:06,113 - WITH YOUR LETTER NEXT TO HIM. 203 00:09:06,113 --> 00:09:08,682 - MY GOD, WHAT HAPPENED? - WE'RE NOT SURE. 204 00:09:08,682 --> 00:09:11,852 WE'RE WAITING FOR THE MEDICAL EXAMINER'S REPORT. 205 00:09:11,852 --> 00:09:15,088 - I DIDN'T KILL HIM! 206 00:09:15,088 --> 00:09:19,126 I-I THOUGHT ABOUT KILLING HIM. 207 00:09:19,126 --> 00:09:21,261 WHAT HE DID TO ME-- I CAN'T HOLD ON TO A GIRLFRIEND. 208 00:09:21,261 --> 00:09:22,996 I GOT INTO DRUGS. 209 00:09:22,996 --> 00:09:27,635 BE-BEFORE LASSITER, I WANTED TO SING AT THE MET. 210 00:09:27,635 --> 00:09:30,037 NOW I WORK AT A DOG HOTEL. - AN ABUSER LIKE LASSITER, 211 00:09:30,037 --> 00:09:32,640 THEY DON'T JUST DO THIS ONCE. 212 00:09:32,640 --> 00:09:36,143 DO YOU KNOW OF ANYONE ELSE THAT HE MAY HAVE TARGETED? 213 00:09:36,143 --> 00:09:37,978 - LATELY I'VE BEEN TALKING TO SOME OF MY FORMER CLASSMATES 214 00:09:37,978 --> 00:09:39,747 AT MANOR HILL. 215 00:09:39,747 --> 00:09:41,815 IT'S, UH, PRETTY HEAVY. 216 00:09:41,815 --> 00:09:43,784 - DID YOU OR ANY OF YOUR CLASSMATES 217 00:09:43,784 --> 00:09:46,286 EVER FILE A POLICE REPORT? - NO! 218 00:09:46,286 --> 00:09:47,988 - WE NEED TO GET THE TRUTH. 219 00:09:47,988 --> 00:09:50,758 IF LASSITER WAS A CAREER PEDOPHILE, 220 00:09:50,758 --> 00:09:52,760 EVEN IF HE'S DEAD... 221 00:09:52,760 --> 00:09:55,763 KEEPING THE DRAGON BURIED-- 222 00:09:55,763 --> 00:09:58,398 THAT'S JUST GONNA HURT A LOT OF PEOPLE. 223 00:09:58,398 --> 00:10:01,802 - THE PEOPLE I'M TALKING TO-- THEY ARE NOT IN RECOVERY. 224 00:10:01,802 --> 00:10:03,170 THEY ARE STRUGGLING! 225 00:10:03,170 --> 00:10:04,805 - IF WE COULD TALK TO THEM, 226 00:10:04,805 --> 00:10:07,675 WE MIGHT JUST GET TO THE TRUTH. 227 00:10:12,145 --> 00:10:14,281 - I DON'T GET IT. I THOUGHT THIS WAS 228 00:10:14,281 --> 00:10:16,850 SOME KIND OF MEMORIAL? WHO INVITED DETECTIVES? 229 00:10:16,850 --> 00:10:18,919 - GUYS, HERE'S THE DEAL. 230 00:10:18,919 --> 00:10:20,788 WHAT WE SAY HERE STAYS HERE. 231 00:10:20,788 --> 00:10:22,690 - WHAT WE SAY ABOUT WHAT? - I'M NOT BROKEN UP 232 00:10:22,690 --> 00:10:24,091 THAT HE DIED, OKAY? 233 00:10:24,091 --> 00:10:26,827 BUT NONE OF US HERE HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH IT. 234 00:10:26,827 --> 00:10:28,796 - WE'RE HERE TO INVESTIGATE LASSITER'S DEATH 235 00:10:28,796 --> 00:10:30,297 AND HIS LIFE. 236 00:10:30,297 --> 00:10:32,766 - RIGHT. WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO, PROSECUTE A DEAD MAN? 237 00:10:32,766 --> 00:10:35,969 - NO. BUT WE NEED TO FIND OUT WHAT HE DID. 238 00:10:35,969 --> 00:10:38,839 WHO MIGHT HAVE KNOWN ABOUT IT, WHO FAILED TO ACT ON IT. 239 00:10:38,839 --> 00:10:40,173 - GUYS, WE HAVE NOTHING TO HIDE. 240 00:10:40,173 --> 00:10:42,409 WE ARE NOT THE ONES WHO DID ANYTHING WRONG. 241 00:10:45,813 --> 00:10:48,448 - GENTLEMEN, IF I MAY... 242 00:10:48,448 --> 00:10:51,351 I'VE BEEN DOING THIS FOR A LONG TIME, 243 00:10:51,351 --> 00:10:53,453 AND I UNDERSTAND THE SHAME 244 00:10:53,453 --> 00:10:56,189 AND THE STIGMA. 245 00:10:56,189 --> 00:11:00,293 BUT KEEPING THE ABUSE SECRET... 246 00:11:00,293 --> 00:11:02,195 DOESN'T MAKE IT GO AWAY. 247 00:11:05,032 --> 00:11:07,300 - SHE'S RIGHT. 248 00:11:07,300 --> 00:11:10,470 I KIND OF PUT IT AWAY ALL THESE YEARS AND, UH, 249 00:11:10,470 --> 00:11:13,774 IT ALL JUST CAME FLOODING BACK WHEN I HEARD THAT HE DIED. 250 00:11:13,774 --> 00:11:16,076 HE, UH, STARTED WITH... 251 00:11:16,076 --> 00:11:18,311 WHAT DID WE, UH, WHAT DID WE CALL IT? 252 00:11:18,311 --> 00:11:20,413 - THE LASSITER LASSO. 253 00:11:20,413 --> 00:11:22,149 HE'D ROPE HIS ARM AROUND YOU, 254 00:11:22,149 --> 00:11:25,853 PULL YOU IN, AND POKE YOU UNDER THE RIBS. 255 00:11:25,853 --> 00:11:28,088 YOU REMEMBER, RIGHT, NATHAN? 256 00:11:28,088 --> 00:11:31,224 - I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT. 257 00:11:32,926 --> 00:11:35,829 LOOK, YOU GUYS WANNA BLAME EVERYTHING THAT'S WRONG 258 00:11:35,829 --> 00:11:36,797 WITH YOUR LIVES ON SOMEONE TICKLING YOU-- 259 00:11:36,797 --> 00:11:38,732 [scoffs] 260 00:11:38,732 --> 00:11:39,900 PEACE OUT. 261 00:11:41,334 --> 00:11:43,370 [door opens and slams shut] 262 00:11:43,370 --> 00:11:44,872 - LASSO? 263 00:11:44,872 --> 00:11:46,774 - IT WAS A TEST. 264 00:11:46,774 --> 00:11:48,375 IF YOU LAUGHED, DIDN'T BACK OFF, 265 00:11:48,375 --> 00:11:50,243 THE NEXT STEP WAS THE MASSAGE. 266 00:11:50,243 --> 00:11:52,780 - HE'D SAY, "YOUNG BOYS SHOULDN'T CARRY TENSION 267 00:11:52,780 --> 00:11:55,382 IN THEIR SHOULDERS. YOU'LL STOOP WHEN YOU'RE OLDER." 268 00:11:55,382 --> 00:11:57,217 [cell phone rings] - AND IF YOU WENT WITH THAT, 269 00:11:57,217 --> 00:11:59,820 THEN HE WOULD SAY THERE WAS ANOTHER PART THAT WAS TENSE 270 00:11:59,820 --> 00:12:01,822 THAT NEEDED MASSAGING. 271 00:12:01,822 --> 00:12:03,891 - LASSITER WAS A COWARD. HE'D BACK OFF. 272 00:12:03,891 --> 00:12:06,894 STREPEK? TEN TIMES WORSE. 273 00:12:06,894 --> 00:12:09,396 - STREPEK. ANOTHER TEACHER? 274 00:12:09,396 --> 00:12:10,931 - HE RAPED ME. 275 00:12:10,931 --> 00:12:13,967 - I STEERED CLEAR OF STREPEK, BUT... 276 00:12:13,967 --> 00:12:16,904 MORTON. HE CAUGHT ME OFF GUARD. 277 00:12:16,904 --> 00:12:19,239 HE WAITED UNTIL I WAS DRUNK AT THE JUNIOR PROM, 278 00:12:19,239 --> 00:12:21,241 AND THEN HE OFFERED TO DRIVE ME HOME. 279 00:12:21,241 --> 00:12:23,911 - ARE THESE TEACHERS STILL AT THE SCHOOL? 280 00:12:23,911 --> 00:12:27,547 - STREPEK'S DEAD, AND I WISH I'D KILLED HIM. 281 00:12:27,547 --> 00:12:31,051 THE SON OF A BITCH GAVE ME GONORRHEA TOO. 282 00:12:31,051 --> 00:12:33,486 - LIV. - EXCUSE ME. 283 00:12:37,791 --> 00:12:39,793 - THE M.E. JUST FINALIZED THE CASE, 284 00:12:39,793 --> 00:12:42,262 AND LASSITER WAS A SUICIDE. 285 00:12:42,262 --> 00:12:44,264 - WHAT ABOUT MERCER? IN THE LOCKER ROOM? 286 00:12:44,264 --> 00:12:47,134 HE HIT ON THE WHOLE SWIM TEAM. 287 00:12:47,134 --> 00:12:50,270 - WE DON'T HAVE TO STAY... 288 00:12:50,270 --> 00:12:52,305 - MIKE. 289 00:12:52,305 --> 00:12:54,141 JONATHAN, KEN. 290 00:12:54,141 --> 00:12:55,843 WELCOME. 291 00:12:55,843 --> 00:12:58,812 - YEAH. 292 00:12:58,812 --> 00:13:01,448 WE DO. 293 00:13:06,987 --> 00:13:08,889 - LASSITER WASN'T AN ISOLATED PREDATOR. 294 00:13:08,889 --> 00:13:10,490 WE'RE LOOKING AT THREE DECADES OF SEXUAL ABUSE, 295 00:13:10,490 --> 00:13:12,359 A DOZEN VICTIMS AND COUNTING. 296 00:13:12,359 --> 00:13:15,195 - AT LEAST FOUR OF THE TEACHERS WERE SERIAL ABUSERS 297 00:13:15,195 --> 00:13:17,264 ALL UNDER THE PREVIOUS HEADMASTER. 298 00:13:17,264 --> 00:13:18,832 - TERRIFIC GRAPHIC WORK. 299 00:13:18,832 --> 00:13:20,000 ANY OF THIS HAPPEN IN THE LAST FIVE YEARS? 300 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:21,268 - NO. - ARE ANY OF THE VICTIMS 301 00:13:21,268 --> 00:13:23,036 UNDER 23 NOW? - NO, BUT WE'VE GOT-- 302 00:13:23,036 --> 00:13:24,437 - OKAY, DIFFERENT STATES DO HAVE DIFFERENT STATUTES. 303 00:13:24,437 --> 00:13:27,307 DID ANY OF THIS TAKE PLACE ON A FIELD TRIP 304 00:13:27,307 --> 00:13:29,877 OR A SPORTS TEAM ROAD TRIP? 305 00:13:29,877 --> 00:13:31,211 CONNECTICUT, MASSACHUSETTS. - YOU EVER THINK ABOUT 306 00:13:31,211 --> 00:13:33,113 GOING OFF CAFFEINE? - THAT'D BE A NO. 307 00:13:33,113 --> 00:13:35,015 SO WHY ARE YOU HERE AGAIN? - IF YOU'D LET US 308 00:13:35,015 --> 00:13:36,149 GET A WORD IN, COUNSELOR... 309 00:13:38,418 --> 00:13:40,053 - THANK YOU. 310 00:13:40,053 --> 00:13:42,255 THE SYSTEMIC ABUSE. IT IS HIGHLY UNLIKELY 311 00:13:42,255 --> 00:13:45,058 THAT NO ONE IN THE SCHOOL'S ADMINISTRATION KNEW ABOUT IT. 312 00:13:45,058 --> 00:13:46,894 - HIGHLY UNLIKELY? 313 00:13:46,894 --> 00:13:49,096 THAT'S A LONG WAY FROM BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT. 314 00:13:49,096 --> 00:13:50,397 HAVE YOU BEEN TO THE SCHOOL? 315 00:13:50,397 --> 00:13:52,332 - OBVIOUSLY THEY WERE LESS THAN FORTHCOMING. 316 00:13:52,332 --> 00:13:54,167 - WE HAD TO GET NAMES AND YEARBOOKS FROM A FRIEND OF FIN'S 317 00:13:54,167 --> 00:13:56,069 WHO WENT THERE ON SCHOLARSHIP. HE'S NOW ON THE BOARD. 318 00:13:56,069 --> 00:14:00,040 - OKAY, BACK UP. LASSITER HANGED HIMSELF. 319 00:14:00,040 --> 00:14:02,542 ARE ANY OF THE OTHERS STILL WORKING? 320 00:14:02,542 --> 00:14:05,245 - THE PREVIOUS HEADMASTER AND STREPEK-- 321 00:14:05,245 --> 00:14:07,080 THEY'RE BOTH DECEASED. 322 00:14:07,080 --> 00:14:09,116 MERCER, THE SWIM COACH, HE'S IN THAILAND. 323 00:14:09,116 --> 00:14:10,217 AT LEAST, THAT'S WHERE HIS SOCIAL SECURITY CHECKS 324 00:14:10,217 --> 00:14:11,952 ARE BEING SENT. 325 00:14:11,952 --> 00:14:13,921 BUT MORTON HERE... 326 00:14:13,921 --> 00:14:16,089 HE DID TEACH UNTIL A FEW YEARS AGO. 327 00:14:16,089 --> 00:14:17,490 - SO IT IS POSSIBLE THAT HIS ABUSE 328 00:14:17,490 --> 00:14:19,960 FALLS WITHIN THE STATUTE. 329 00:14:19,960 --> 00:14:22,329 - IF HE DID ABUSE STUDENTS, HE WON'T ADMIT IT. 330 00:14:22,329 --> 00:14:24,097 TELL HIM YOU ALREADY KNOW. 331 00:14:24,097 --> 00:14:26,233 HE MIGHT TRY TO SAVE HIMSELF BY TURNING ON MANOR HILL. 332 00:14:26,233 --> 00:14:29,502 SCHOOLS LIKE THIS, THERE'S AN INSULARITY, 333 00:14:29,502 --> 00:14:32,372 A CULTURE OF SECRECY AND SELF-PRESERVATION. 334 00:14:32,372 --> 00:14:35,075 IF YOU WANT THOSE FIELD STONE WALLS TO TUMBLE, 335 00:14:35,075 --> 00:14:38,145 YOU'RE GONNA NEED HEAVY ARTILLERY. 336 00:14:38,145 --> 00:14:40,080 [train whistle blows] 337 00:14:40,080 --> 00:14:42,415 - AH, YES, THE BOYS OF SUMMER. 338 00:14:42,415 --> 00:14:44,117 [chuckles] THERE WERE SO MANY OF THEM. 339 00:14:44,117 --> 00:14:46,086 IT'S HARD TO REMEMBER. 340 00:14:46,086 --> 00:14:49,089 - MR. MORTON, YOU ONLY STOPPED TEACHING SIX YEARS AGO. 341 00:14:49,089 --> 00:14:51,291 CAN YOU REMEMBER ANY OF THESE STUDENTS? 342 00:14:51,291 --> 00:14:53,126 - WELL, WHICH YEAR? 343 00:14:53,126 --> 00:14:56,163 - ELI FROMSON, CLASS OF '92. 344 00:14:56,163 --> 00:15:00,067 - HE SAID YOU INVITED HIM OVER YOUR HOUSE FOR DRINKS. 345 00:15:00,067 --> 00:15:01,601 - ISN'T THAT LOVELY? 346 00:15:01,601 --> 00:15:03,971 I LIKE TO COME DOWN HERE AND BUILD THINGS. 347 00:15:03,971 --> 00:15:07,107 PLAY STATIONMASTER. IT HELPS ME FORGET. 348 00:15:07,107 --> 00:15:09,276 - WHAT DO YOU WANT TO FORGET, MR. MORTON? 349 00:15:09,276 --> 00:15:11,078 WHAT HAPPENED WITH ELI? 350 00:15:11,078 --> 00:15:13,580 - ELI WAS ONE OF MY STARS... 351 00:15:13,580 --> 00:15:17,117 ALONG WITH DAVID AND CHARLIE. 352 00:15:17,117 --> 00:15:20,053 - THREE BOYS? - OH, MORE THAN THAT. 353 00:15:20,053 --> 00:15:21,588 CAMBRIDGE WAS WONDERFUL-- 354 00:15:21,588 --> 00:15:24,291 - WE'RE TALKING ABOUT MANOR HILL. 355 00:15:24,291 --> 00:15:28,595 - IS THIS... BEFORE OR AFTER CHOSIN? 356 00:15:28,595 --> 00:15:30,530 - CHOSIN? - MM. 357 00:15:30,530 --> 00:15:33,533 - YOU TALKING ABOUT THE KOREAN WAR? 358 00:15:33,533 --> 00:15:37,037 - I THOUGHT HE DIED THERE, TERRENCE. 359 00:15:37,037 --> 00:15:39,439 BUT WE HELD OUR POSITION. 360 00:15:39,439 --> 00:15:42,409 [bell ringing] 361 00:15:44,111 --> 00:15:47,047 [quietly] TIME FOR TEA. 362 00:15:47,047 --> 00:15:49,983 - JUST COME THIS WAY, MR. TOMPKINS. 363 00:15:49,983 --> 00:15:51,518 THANK YOU FOR COMING IN. 364 00:15:51,518 --> 00:15:54,554 JUST, UH, HAVE A SEAT RIGHT IN HERE. 365 00:15:54,554 --> 00:15:56,423 I'LL BE RIGHT WITH YOU. 366 00:15:58,091 --> 00:15:59,492 - WHO'S THAT? 367 00:15:59,492 --> 00:16:03,196 - FORMER TEACHER. AT MANOR HILL. 368 00:16:03,196 --> 00:16:05,232 HE WANTS TO TALK. 369 00:16:05,232 --> 00:16:07,234 HE'S A WALTER TOMPKINS. 370 00:16:07,234 --> 00:16:10,070 - NONE OF THE VICTIMS MENTION THAT NAME. 371 00:16:10,070 --> 00:16:12,172 - YOU SAID YOU TAUGHT AT MANOR HILL? 372 00:16:12,172 --> 00:16:14,007 - 40 YEARS. 373 00:16:14,007 --> 00:16:17,544 I'M STILL IN TOUCH WITH MANY OF MY FORMER STUDENTS. 374 00:16:17,544 --> 00:16:22,082 I'VE HEARD THAT YOU'RE INVESTIGATING SOME EVENTS. 375 00:16:22,082 --> 00:16:25,485 - YES. ALLEGATIONS OF SEXUAL ABUSE 376 00:16:25,485 --> 00:16:27,587 OF STUDENTS BY TEACHERS. 377 00:16:27,587 --> 00:16:29,089 - SEXUAL ABUSE-- 378 00:16:29,089 --> 00:16:32,359 TWO WORDS THAT SHOULD NEVER GO TOGETHER. 379 00:16:32,359 --> 00:16:36,596 HAS ANYONE NAMED ME? 380 00:16:36,596 --> 00:16:39,066 - SHOULD THEY HAVE? 381 00:16:39,066 --> 00:16:42,569 - I HAD SEX WITH STUDENTS. 382 00:16:42,569 --> 00:16:45,572 OLDER STUDENTS. TWO. 383 00:16:45,572 --> 00:16:48,208 AND I WAS PHYSICALLY AFFECTIONATE WITH A THIRD. 384 00:16:54,114 --> 00:16:55,815 - OKAY. 385 00:16:55,815 --> 00:16:57,284 AND WHEN WAS THIS? 386 00:16:57,284 --> 00:17:00,653 - IN THE '70s, EARLY '80s. 387 00:17:00,653 --> 00:17:02,689 A DIFFERENT TIME. 388 00:17:02,689 --> 00:17:04,724 I KNOW YOU WON'T UNDERSTAND, 389 00:17:04,724 --> 00:17:07,460 BUT I DON'T MEAN THIS AS A CONFESSION 390 00:17:07,460 --> 00:17:10,130 AS IF WE DID SOMETHING WRONG. 391 00:17:10,130 --> 00:17:12,632 OUR RELATIONSHIPS WERE... 392 00:17:12,632 --> 00:17:15,102 WARM, SPONTANEOUS, 393 00:17:15,102 --> 00:17:16,636 CARING. 394 00:17:16,636 --> 00:17:18,338 - AND HOW OLD WERE THESE STUDENTS? 395 00:17:18,338 --> 00:17:21,074 - 17, 18. 396 00:17:21,074 --> 00:17:23,343 - WELL, THAT'S CONVENIENT, ISN'T IT? 397 00:17:23,343 --> 00:17:25,145 YOU BREACH THEIR TRUST, 398 00:17:25,145 --> 00:17:28,148 BUT YOU KNOW THAT THERE'S NOTHING WE CAN DO ABOUT IT NOW. 399 00:17:28,148 --> 00:17:31,151 - I'M NOT HERE TO AVOID RESPONSIBILITY. 400 00:17:31,151 --> 00:17:32,785 - WHY ARE YOU HERE, MR. TOMPKINS? 401 00:17:32,785 --> 00:17:37,357 - MY ACTIONS MAY HAVE HAD CONSEQUENCES I DIDN'T FORESEE. 402 00:17:37,357 --> 00:17:41,661 IF ANY OF THEM FEEL THAT I HARMED THEM... 403 00:17:41,661 --> 00:17:43,863 IF I DID HARM THEM, 404 00:17:43,863 --> 00:17:47,700 PERHAPS IT WOULD BE HELP FOR THEM TO CONFRONT ME 405 00:17:47,700 --> 00:17:50,803 OR THROUGH YOU TO SHARE THEIR ANGER. 406 00:17:50,803 --> 00:17:53,406 - DID ANYBODY AT MANOR HILL KNOW 407 00:17:53,406 --> 00:17:55,575 THAT YOU WERE HAVING SEX WITH STUDENTS? 408 00:17:55,575 --> 00:17:58,478 - NO. OUR RELATIONSHIPS WERE PRIVATE. 409 00:17:58,478 --> 00:18:00,747 NO ONE WAS OUT IN THOSE DAYS. 410 00:18:00,747 --> 00:18:03,250 IT WOULD HAVE STIGMATIZED THE YOUNGER MEN. 411 00:18:03,250 --> 00:18:06,586 ONLY NOW ARE THEY COMING FORWARD. 412 00:18:06,586 --> 00:18:10,557 SOME OF MY STUDENTS EMAILED ME JUST A FEW DAYS AGO 413 00:18:10,557 --> 00:18:13,360 TO TELL ME ABOUT COERCIVE RELATIONSHIPS. 414 00:18:13,360 --> 00:18:14,861 I'M HORRIFIED. 415 00:18:14,861 --> 00:18:17,497 - WAIT. SO YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT OTHER TEACHERS? 416 00:18:17,497 --> 00:18:19,666 LASSITER, MORTON, 417 00:18:19,666 --> 00:18:21,868 STREPEK, MERCER. - NO, NO, NO. 418 00:18:21,868 --> 00:18:25,538 I'VE BEEN BEATING MYSELF UP THAT STUDENTS WERE ABUSED 419 00:18:25,538 --> 00:18:29,276 AND I FAILED TO SEE IT, I FAILED TO HELP THEM. 420 00:18:30,877 --> 00:18:33,580 - THANK YOU, MR. TOMPKINS. 421 00:18:33,580 --> 00:18:36,349 - MR. TOMPKINS? WHY ARE YOU GUYS TALKING TO HIM? 422 00:18:36,349 --> 00:18:38,185 HE'S EVERYONE'S FAVORITE TEACHER. 423 00:18:38,185 --> 00:18:40,553 - BECAUSE HE CAME IN AND CONFESSED. 424 00:18:40,553 --> 00:18:42,722 HE HAD SEX WITH STUDENTS. 425 00:18:42,722 --> 00:18:44,324 - I'VE TALKED TO 25 VICTIMS. 426 00:18:44,324 --> 00:18:46,393 NO ONE HAD A BAD WORD TO SAY ABOUT HIM. 427 00:18:46,393 --> 00:18:49,296 - WELL, HE FEELS THAT THE SCHOOL MAY HAVE KNOWN. 428 00:18:49,296 --> 00:18:51,898 - OF COURSE THEY KNEW. THEY'RE STILL COVERING IT UP. 429 00:18:51,898 --> 00:18:54,201 - TOMPKINS HAD NO PROOF, AND AS OF NOW, NEITHER DO WE. 430 00:18:54,201 --> 00:18:56,436 - SO YOU'RE JUST GONNA DROP THIS CASE? 431 00:18:56,436 --> 00:18:58,871 - THERE IS NO CASE. LASSITER AND STREPEK ARE DEAD. 432 00:18:58,871 --> 00:19:00,273 MERCER'S HALFWAY AROUND THE WORLD, 433 00:19:00,273 --> 00:19:02,175 AND MORTON IS SENILE. 434 00:19:02,175 --> 00:19:04,211 - I'M GETTING CALLS AND EMAILS FROM MORE SURVIVORS. 435 00:19:04,211 --> 00:19:06,813 PEOPLE WHO HAVE REPRESSED ALL OF THIS. 436 00:19:06,813 --> 00:19:08,948 MOST OF US NEVER TALKED TO EACH OTHER BEFORE. 437 00:19:08,948 --> 00:19:11,184 THIS IS MORE WIDESPREAD THAN ANY OF US KNEW. 438 00:19:11,184 --> 00:19:13,253 - IT'S AN OUTRAGE. I AGREE. 439 00:19:13,253 --> 00:19:15,655 BUT THE ONLY POSSIBLE CASE IS AGAINST THE SCHOOL, 440 00:19:15,655 --> 00:19:17,957 IF IT KNEW ABOUT THE ABUSE AND COVERED IT UP. 441 00:19:17,957 --> 00:19:19,959 - THEY KNEW. 442 00:19:19,959 --> 00:19:21,761 MY DAD TOLD 'EM. 443 00:19:21,761 --> 00:19:25,932 - WHAT? - AFTER I GOT GONORRHEA, 444 00:19:25,932 --> 00:19:28,968 MY DAD BECAME SUSPICIOUS OF STREPEK. 445 00:19:28,968 --> 00:19:30,437 I TOLD HIM NOTHING HAPPENED, 446 00:19:30,437 --> 00:19:31,571 BUT HE WENT STRAIGHT TO THE SCHOOL. 447 00:19:31,571 --> 00:19:32,805 HE CONFRONTED THE HEADMASTER. 448 00:19:32,805 --> 00:19:35,408 - THIS HEADMASTER--HE DECEASED? - YEAH. 449 00:19:35,408 --> 00:19:37,244 - CAN YOUR FATHER CONFIRM THIS MEETING? 450 00:19:37,244 --> 00:19:39,912 - HE'S GONE TOO. 451 00:19:39,912 --> 00:19:42,249 I'LL TESTIFY. 452 00:19:42,249 --> 00:19:44,884 - IF IT COMES TO THAT. - THE SCHOOL WON'T LET IT. 453 00:19:44,884 --> 00:19:46,953 I SENT THE BOARD AN EMAIL PETITION. 454 00:19:46,953 --> 00:19:48,621 I GOT A CALL BACK FROM THEIR LAWYER 455 00:19:48,621 --> 00:19:50,323 THREATENING TO SUE ME FOR DEFAMATION. 456 00:19:50,323 --> 00:19:51,791 - THAT'S A LEGAL MANEUVER. 457 00:19:51,791 --> 00:19:52,925 IT DOESN'T RISE TO THE LEVEL OF A CRIME. 458 00:19:52,925 --> 00:19:54,794 - I DON'T CARE ABOUT CHARGES. 459 00:19:54,794 --> 00:19:56,729 I MEAN, WOULD IT KILL THEM 460 00:19:56,729 --> 00:19:59,799 TO JUST ACKNOWLEDGE THAT SOMETHING BAD HAPPENED? 461 00:19:59,799 --> 00:20:01,701 - HOW 'BOUT AN APOLOGY? 462 00:20:04,871 --> 00:20:06,839 - HE'S RIGHT. 463 00:20:06,839 --> 00:20:10,677 AN APOLOGY CAN MAKE A HUGE DIFFERENCE IN GETTING CLOSURE. 464 00:20:10,677 --> 00:20:12,912 - AND IT CAN ALSO BE PERCEIVED AS AN ADMISSION OF GUILT. 465 00:20:12,912 --> 00:20:14,981 WHICH LEAVES THE SCHOOL OPEN TO LIABILITY CLAIMS. 466 00:20:14,981 --> 00:20:17,250 THEY'D RATHER CLOSE RANKS. 467 00:20:17,250 --> 00:20:19,686 - SO ABUSE MEANS NEVER HAVING TO SAY YOU'RE SORRY. 468 00:20:19,686 --> 00:20:21,788 - WE HAVE TO PUSH BACK. 469 00:20:21,788 --> 00:20:24,524 A D.A. ASKING TO MEET WITH THE HEADMASTER? 470 00:20:24,524 --> 00:20:26,959 THAT'S HEAVY ARTILLERY. 471 00:20:30,330 --> 00:20:32,499 - I TOOK THE LIBERTY OF INVITING BRETT FORRESTER, 472 00:20:32,499 --> 00:20:34,401 OUR BOARD CHAIR. 473 00:20:34,401 --> 00:20:37,770 - AND YOUR ATTORNEY? LONG TIME NO SEE, MS. CALHOUN. 474 00:20:37,770 --> 00:20:39,939 I'M GLAD MANOR HILL'S TAKING THESE CHARGES SERIOUSLY. 475 00:20:39,939 --> 00:20:41,308 - LIKE HELL WE ARE. 476 00:20:41,308 --> 00:20:43,042 I HAVE NO IDEA WHY WE'RE MEETING. 477 00:20:43,042 --> 00:20:44,711 - IT NEVER HURTS TO LISTEN, BRETT. 478 00:20:44,711 --> 00:20:46,646 - WELL, WE'VE SPOKEN WITH TWO DOZEN 479 00:20:46,646 --> 00:20:48,381 MANOR HILL ALUMNI 480 00:20:48,381 --> 00:20:50,317 WHO WERE ABUSED WHILE THEY WERE STUDENTS HERE. 481 00:20:50,317 --> 00:20:52,051 - ALLEGED THEY WERE ABUSED. 482 00:20:52,051 --> 00:20:55,021 AND THEY WAITED WHAT-- 20, 30 YEARS TO COME FORWARD? 483 00:20:55,021 --> 00:20:56,489 - I'M SURE THAT YOU KNOW, 484 00:20:56,489 --> 00:20:58,591 GIVEN THE STIGMA OF THIS KIND OF ABUSE, 485 00:20:58,591 --> 00:21:00,960 THAT THE TIME DELAY IS NOT UNUSUAL. 486 00:21:00,960 --> 00:21:04,063 - IT'S ALSO UNVERIFIABLE AND SUBJECT TO MANIPULATION, 487 00:21:04,063 --> 00:21:07,033 WHICH IS WHY THE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS WAS PUT INTO EFFECT. 488 00:21:07,033 --> 00:21:08,067 - THAT DOESN'T APPLY IF THE SCHOOL 489 00:21:08,067 --> 00:21:09,869 FAILED TO REPORT THE ABUSE 490 00:21:09,869 --> 00:21:12,672 AND CONTINUES TO COVER UP ITS FAILURE TO REPORT. 491 00:21:12,672 --> 00:21:14,341 - IF YOU HAD ANY EVIDENCE OF THAT, 492 00:21:14,341 --> 00:21:15,808 YOU WOULDN'T BE HERE ON THIS FISHING EXPEDITION. 493 00:21:15,808 --> 00:21:18,545 OR IS THERE SOMETHING SPECIFIC YOU WANTED? 494 00:21:18,545 --> 00:21:20,880 - UH, YES, FOR STARTERS, 495 00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:22,982 THE VICTIMS WOULD LIKE AN APOLOGY. 496 00:21:22,982 --> 00:21:24,917 - EXCUSE ME? 497 00:21:24,917 --> 00:21:26,919 - IT WOULD HELP THEIR HEALING 498 00:21:26,919 --> 00:21:29,822 TO HEAR AN ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF WRONGDOING. 499 00:21:29,822 --> 00:21:32,024 - IT WOULD ALSO HELP THEM SUE MANOR HILL. 500 00:21:32,024 --> 00:21:35,328 - I AM SORRY FOR THEIR PAIN. 501 00:21:35,328 --> 00:21:36,963 BUT YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND 502 00:21:36,963 --> 00:21:40,667 THE SCHOOL'S REPUTATION AND MISSION ARE AT STAKE. 503 00:21:40,667 --> 00:21:42,835 - YOU'RE WORRIED ABOUT YOUR REPUTATION? 504 00:21:42,835 --> 00:21:43,936 TALK TO ANYONE IN P.R. 505 00:21:43,936 --> 00:21:45,838 YOU WANT TO GET IN FRONT OF THIS THING 506 00:21:45,838 --> 00:21:47,340 BEFORE IT EXPLODES IN YOUR FACE. - I'VE HEARD ENOUGH. 507 00:21:47,340 --> 00:21:50,076 - MY GRANDFATHER, MY FATHER, MYSELF, MY SON 508 00:21:50,076 --> 00:21:52,679 ALL GRADUATED FROM MANOR HILL. 509 00:21:52,679 --> 00:21:54,914 FOUR GENERATIONS. WE CREATED LEADERS 510 00:21:54,914 --> 00:21:57,083 IN ART, SCIENCE, BUSINESS, POLITICS. 511 00:21:57,083 --> 00:21:59,986 - IT ALSO CREATED VICTIMS 512 00:21:59,986 --> 00:22:03,055 WHO SUFFER WITH FAILED RELATIONSHIPS, 513 00:22:03,055 --> 00:22:05,392 UNEMPLOYMENT, SUBSTANCE ABUSE. 514 00:22:05,392 --> 00:22:06,926 I COULD GO ON. 515 00:22:06,926 --> 00:22:08,561 - THEY DRINK TOO MUCH AND GET DIVORCED? 516 00:22:08,561 --> 00:22:10,897 A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE DISAPPOINTING LIVES. 517 00:22:10,897 --> 00:22:13,966 THESE FAILURES 518 00:22:13,966 --> 00:22:15,968 ARE JUST TRYING TO EXCUSE THEIR OWN BEHAVIOR. 519 00:22:15,968 --> 00:22:18,405 - OKAY, WE'RE ONLY ASKING MANOR HILL 520 00:22:18,405 --> 00:22:21,408 TO DO THE RIGHT THING. 521 00:22:21,408 --> 00:22:23,476 - THE RIGHT THING IS TO PROTECT THIS INSTITUTION. 522 00:22:23,476 --> 00:22:25,412 NOW, IF YOU'LL EXCUSE US, WE HAVE TO PREPARE 523 00:22:25,412 --> 00:22:28,515 FOR OUR CAPITAL CAMPAIGN RECEPTION TONIGHT. 524 00:22:31,951 --> 00:22:33,686 - NICE CAMPUS. 525 00:22:33,686 --> 00:22:34,787 AS A KID GROWING UP IN THE SOUTH BRONX 526 00:22:34,787 --> 00:22:36,055 GOING TO CATHOLIC SCHOOL, 527 00:22:36,055 --> 00:22:37,890 I WOULD'VE GIVEN ANYTHING TO GO HERE. 528 00:22:37,890 --> 00:22:39,926 - SMART GUY LIKE YOU COULDN'T GET A SCHOLARSHIP? 529 00:22:39,926 --> 00:22:41,561 - ONLY KIDS THEY TOOK FROM MY NEIGHBORHOOD 530 00:22:41,561 --> 00:22:43,396 WERE THE ATHLETES. 531 00:22:43,396 --> 00:22:45,732 WITH ALL DUE RESPECT, THIS WAS A WASTE OF TIME. 532 00:22:45,732 --> 00:22:48,501 I'M A PROSECUTOR, NOT A HEALER. 533 00:22:48,501 --> 00:22:50,837 - ALL DUE RESPECT, AS A PROSECUTOR 534 00:22:50,837 --> 00:22:53,406 DON'T YOU WANT TO MAKE A CASE? 535 00:22:53,406 --> 00:22:55,475 I KNOW SOMETHING CRIMINAL WENT ON HERE. 536 00:22:55,475 --> 00:22:56,876 [keys jangle] 537 00:22:56,876 --> 00:23:01,481 SO DO YOU. 538 00:23:01,481 --> 00:23:03,115 [engine starts] 539 00:23:08,020 --> 00:23:09,756 - OKAY. 540 00:23:09,756 --> 00:23:11,558 THEIR LAWYER THINKS WE'RE ON A FISHING EXPEDITION? 541 00:23:11,558 --> 00:23:13,460 LET'S GO FISHING. 542 00:23:13,460 --> 00:23:15,194 - CURT IS TRYING TO PROVE THAT A COMPLAINT 543 00:23:15,194 --> 00:23:18,064 WAS INDEED MADE TO THE SCHOOL. 544 00:23:18,064 --> 00:23:20,800 - VINCENT GAVE US ACCESS TO HIS MEDICAL RECORDS. 545 00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:23,035 HE DID HAVE AN STD AS A STUDENT, 546 00:23:23,035 --> 00:23:24,571 AND HE'S READY TO TESTIFY. 547 00:23:24,571 --> 00:23:26,038 - WHAT'S ON OUR SIDE-- 548 00:23:26,038 --> 00:23:27,807 A WAY AROUND THE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS. 549 00:23:27,807 --> 00:23:30,543 IF THE SCHOOL RECEIVED AN ALLEGATION AND DIDN'T REPORT 550 00:23:30,543 --> 00:23:33,746 AND HAS CONTINUED EFFORTS TO BLOCK DISCOVERY OF THE ABUSE. 551 00:23:33,746 --> 00:23:35,948 - WHAT'S AGAINST US-- ALL THE WITNESSES 552 00:23:35,948 --> 00:23:38,084 TO THE REPORT WE HEARD ABOUT ARE DEAD-- 553 00:23:38,084 --> 00:23:40,152 VINCENT'S FATHER, THE OLD HEADMASTER, STREPEK. 554 00:23:40,152 --> 00:23:42,822 - I MAY HAVE ANOTHER WAY IN. 555 00:23:42,822 --> 00:23:44,891 I'M GOING OVER THE ALUMNI NEWS LETTERS. 556 00:23:44,891 --> 00:23:47,527 MANOR HILL GAVE STREPEK A GOING-AWAY PARTY 557 00:23:47,527 --> 00:23:48,595 NINE YEARS AGO. 558 00:23:48,595 --> 00:23:50,730 HE WASN'T EVEN 60. 559 00:23:50,730 --> 00:23:52,799 - PRETTY YOUNG FOR THAT SCHOOL. 560 00:23:52,799 --> 00:23:54,634 MAYBE THEY FORCED HIM INTO EARLY RETIREMENT 561 00:23:54,634 --> 00:23:56,603 BECAUSE THEY KNEW? 562 00:23:56,603 --> 00:23:58,805 - WELL, IF THEY KNEW, THEY KEPT IT TO THEMSELVES. 563 00:23:58,805 --> 00:24:00,607 LOOK AT THIS. 564 00:24:00,607 --> 00:24:02,509 TWO MONTHS LATER, 565 00:24:02,509 --> 00:24:04,477 THEY'VE GOT NO PROBLEM CONGRATULATING MR. STREPEK 566 00:24:04,477 --> 00:24:07,580 AT HIS HIRE AT A CHARTER SCHOOL IN HARLEM. 567 00:24:07,580 --> 00:24:08,881 - WE'RE GETTING CLOSER. 568 00:24:08,881 --> 00:24:10,883 TALK TO THAT CHARTER SCHOOL. 569 00:24:10,883 --> 00:24:13,586 GIVE ME SOMETHING I CAN TAKE TO A GRAND JURY. 570 00:24:13,586 --> 00:24:14,587 [school bell rings] 571 00:24:14,587 --> 00:24:16,489 - BENJAMIN STREPEK. 572 00:24:16,489 --> 00:24:18,791 HIGHLY RECOMMENDED TEACHER FROM THE FAMOUS MANOR HILL 573 00:24:18,791 --> 00:24:20,793 COMING TO OUR INNER CITY CHARTER. 574 00:24:20,793 --> 00:24:23,229 IT WAS A SIGN WE'D ARRIVED. 575 00:24:23,229 --> 00:24:24,997 - HE DIDN'T WORK OUT FOR YOU? 576 00:24:24,997 --> 00:24:28,000 - I FIRED HIM A MONTH AFTER HE GOT HERE. 577 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:30,503 - WHAT HAPPENED? - I HEARD VOICES 578 00:24:30,503 --> 00:24:32,104 COMING FROM THE BOYS' LOCKER ROOM 579 00:24:32,104 --> 00:24:34,273 AND WALKED IN AND SAW HIM WITH A EIGHTH-GRADE BOY. 580 00:24:34,273 --> 00:24:37,577 TOO CLOSE. NOTHING WAS ACTUALLY HAPPENING, 581 00:24:37,577 --> 00:24:39,546 BUT I GOT A BAD VIBE. 582 00:24:39,546 --> 00:24:41,147 - YOU TALK TO THE STUDENT? 583 00:24:41,147 --> 00:24:42,281 - HE WAS NERVOUS. 584 00:24:42,281 --> 00:24:44,551 HE SAID STREPEK WAS TUTORING HIM. 585 00:24:44,551 --> 00:24:46,118 - IN THE LOCKER ROOM. 586 00:24:46,118 --> 00:24:48,988 - YEAH. EXACTLY. I CALLED HEADMASTER LENNOX, 587 00:24:48,988 --> 00:24:50,990 AND HE SAID HE'D GET BACK TO ME. 588 00:24:50,990 --> 00:24:53,025 THEN I SPOKE TO HIS SECRETARY, 589 00:24:53,025 --> 00:24:56,629 AND SHE SAID, "OFF THE RECORD, GO WITH YOUR GUT." 590 00:24:56,629 --> 00:24:59,131 I CANNED STREPEK THAT DAY. 591 00:24:59,131 --> 00:25:02,301 - YOU SAID MANOR HILL GAVE HIM A GOOD RECOMMENDATION? 592 00:25:02,301 --> 00:25:05,004 - GLOWING. I'LL SEND YOU A COPY. 593 00:25:05,004 --> 00:25:07,807 - THANK YOU. 594 00:25:17,850 --> 00:25:20,186 - DETECTIVES, I'M TERRIBLY SORRY, 595 00:25:20,186 --> 00:25:21,888 BUT THIS IS A PRIVATE EVENT. 596 00:25:21,888 --> 00:25:23,723 - YEAH, WE WON'T STAY LONG. - WE HAVE A SUBPOENA. 597 00:25:23,723 --> 00:25:26,258 - DETECTIVE, CAN WE TAKE THIS OUTSIDE, PLEASE? 598 00:25:26,258 --> 00:25:29,762 - SURE, YOU CAN. TAKE THAT WITH YOU. 599 00:25:31,864 --> 00:25:35,034 - YOU'RE ON PRIVATE PROPERTY. LEAVE NOW. 600 00:25:35,034 --> 00:25:39,105 - I HAVE A CORDIAL INVITATION TO YOU FOR THE GRAND JURY. 601 00:25:39,105 --> 00:25:41,608 - THIS IS HARASSMENT. 602 00:25:41,608 --> 00:25:43,776 - LET'S CALL IT A FISHING EXPEDITION. 603 00:25:49,315 --> 00:25:51,117 - HEADMASTER LENNOX, 604 00:25:51,117 --> 00:25:52,719 DID YOU SEND THIS LETTER 605 00:25:52,719 --> 00:25:54,220 RECOMMENDING BENJAMIN STREPEK 606 00:25:54,220 --> 00:25:56,789 TO A CHARTER SCHOOL IN HARLEM? - YES, I DID. 607 00:25:56,789 --> 00:25:58,825 I'D NEVER WORKED WITH MR. STREPEK PERSONALLY, 608 00:25:58,825 --> 00:26:01,293 BUT HE HAD AN IMPECCABLE REPUTATION. 609 00:26:01,293 --> 00:26:03,295 - BUT WHEN THE PRINCIPAL OF THE CHARTER SCHOOL 610 00:26:03,295 --> 00:26:04,597 CALLED YOU TO FOLLOW UP ON STREPEK, 611 00:26:04,597 --> 00:26:05,832 YOU NEVER CALLED HER BACK. 612 00:26:05,832 --> 00:26:07,099 - IT'S POSSIBLE. 613 00:26:07,099 --> 00:26:08,635 I WAS NEW TO MY JOB, OVERWHELMED. 614 00:26:08,635 --> 00:26:10,202 - I SEE. 615 00:26:10,202 --> 00:26:11,938 IT WASN'T BECAUSE YOU HAD SUSPICIONS 616 00:26:11,938 --> 00:26:14,774 YOU'D PASSED OFF DAMAGED GOODS TO THE CHARTER SCHOOL. 617 00:26:14,774 --> 00:26:16,943 THAT STREPEK WAS A SEXUAL ABUSER. 618 00:26:16,943 --> 00:26:18,377 - OF COURSE NOT, I-- 619 00:26:18,377 --> 00:26:20,246 I HAD NO KNOWLEDGE OF ANY SUCH THING. 620 00:26:20,246 --> 00:26:22,381 AGAIN, I HAD JUST ARRIVED AT THE SCHOOL. 621 00:26:22,381 --> 00:26:24,283 - SO YOU WROTE A GLOWING RECOMMENDATION FOR A MAN 622 00:26:24,283 --> 00:26:25,251 YOU HADN'T EVEN MET. 623 00:26:25,251 --> 00:26:26,986 DID ANYONE ON THE BOARD 624 00:26:26,986 --> 00:26:28,387 TELL YOU THAT A FATHER OF ONE OF THE STUDENTS, 625 00:26:28,387 --> 00:26:30,723 VINCENT MORAN, AHD MADE ALLEGATIONS 626 00:26:30,723 --> 00:26:32,825 OF SEXUAL ABUSE TO THE SCHOOL 627 00:26:32,825 --> 00:26:34,627 ABOUT MR. STREPEK? 628 00:26:34,627 --> 00:26:36,328 - NO. THEY DID NOT. 629 00:26:36,328 --> 00:26:40,132 IF THEY HAD, I NEVER WOULD HAVE SENT THAT RECOMMENDATION. 630 00:26:40,132 --> 00:26:41,634 - YOU TOLD THE PRINCIPAL OF THE CHARTER SCHOOL 631 00:26:41,634 --> 00:26:43,335 TO "GO WITH HER GUT." 632 00:26:43,335 --> 00:26:45,838 WHAT DID YOU MEAN? - NOTHING. 633 00:26:45,838 --> 00:26:48,140 JUST THAT SHE SHOULD DO WHAT SHE THOUGHT WAS BEST FOR HER SCHOOL. 634 00:26:48,140 --> 00:26:49,375 - SHE DIDN'T ASK YOU ABOUT HER SCHOOL. 635 00:26:49,375 --> 00:26:51,110 SHE ASKED YOU ABOUT MR. STREPEK. 636 00:26:51,110 --> 00:26:53,312 - I JUST THOUGHT MAYBE HE WASN'T A GOOD FIT THERE. 637 00:26:53,312 --> 00:26:54,814 - BECAUSE HE SEXUALLY ABUSED STUDENTS. 638 00:26:54,814 --> 00:26:56,248 - NO. - MR. STREPEK LEFT MANOR HILL 639 00:26:56,248 --> 00:26:58,050 BEFORE RETIREMENT AGE. 640 00:26:58,050 --> 00:27:00,152 WHY WASN'T HE A GOOD FIT THERE? 641 00:27:00,152 --> 00:27:03,322 - I REALLY COULDN'T SAY. - YOU COULDN'T, OR YOU WON'T? 642 00:27:06,358 --> 00:27:08,027 - HOW'S IT GOING? - MANOR HILL WITNESSES 643 00:27:08,027 --> 00:27:09,295 ARE PLAYING CLOSE TO THE VEST. 644 00:27:09,295 --> 00:27:10,730 TOO CAREFUL WITH THEIR ANSWERS. 645 00:27:10,730 --> 00:27:12,231 MY SENSE-- THE JURY'S SMELLING SMOKE. 646 00:27:12,231 --> 00:27:13,900 - WELL, IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU DON'T NEED ME. 647 00:27:13,900 --> 00:27:16,836 - ACTUALLY, I DO. YOU'RE MY STAR WITNESS, OKAY? 648 00:27:16,836 --> 00:27:20,072 YOU'LL TESTIFY TO THE ABUSE, THE STD. 649 00:27:20,072 --> 00:27:22,441 THE FACT THAT YOUR FATHER CONFRONTED THE SCHOOL. 650 00:27:22,441 --> 00:27:25,044 THAT'S GONNA MAKE THE GRAND JURY CONNECT THE DOTS. 651 00:27:25,044 --> 00:27:27,379 - COOL. - OKAY. 652 00:27:27,379 --> 00:27:29,315 - OF COURSE I KNEW BEN STREPEK. 653 00:27:29,315 --> 00:27:32,451 HE TAUGHT MY SON. A TRUE INTELLECTUAL. 654 00:27:32,451 --> 00:27:34,220 WE DIDN'T SOCIALIZE, 655 00:27:34,220 --> 00:27:36,723 BUT HE SEEMED TOTALLY DEVOTED TO HIS WORK. 656 00:27:36,723 --> 00:27:39,091 - THEN WHY WAS HE FORCED INTO EARLY RETIREMENT? 657 00:27:39,091 --> 00:27:40,960 - I WASN'T AWARE THAT HE WAS. 658 00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:43,362 - WE HAVE HIS PERSONNEL FILE, MR. FORRESTER. 659 00:27:43,362 --> 00:27:46,265 WE CAN SEE THAT HE RECEIVED FINANCIAL COMPENSATION 660 00:27:46,265 --> 00:27:48,234 FOR HIS DEPARTURE. 661 00:27:48,234 --> 00:27:50,136 WERE YOU AT THE BOARD MEETING WHERE THIS WAS DISCUSSED? 662 00:27:50,136 --> 00:27:52,404 - OF COURSE I WAS AT THE BOARD MEETING. 663 00:27:52,404 --> 00:27:55,107 - CAN YOU TELL US WHAT HAPPENED? 664 00:27:55,107 --> 00:27:58,210 - NINE YEARS AGO? 665 00:27:58,210 --> 00:28:00,279 I SERVE ON 15 DIFFERENT BOARDS 666 00:28:00,279 --> 00:28:02,782 IN THREE DIFFERENT TIME ZONES. 667 00:28:02,782 --> 00:28:05,718 THAT'S WHY THEY TAKE MINUTES. 668 00:28:05,718 --> 00:28:07,987 - SEE, THOSE MINUTES SEEM TO BE MISSING 669 00:28:07,987 --> 00:28:09,388 FROM THE SCHOOL FILES. 670 00:28:09,388 --> 00:28:12,859 - I'M THE CHAIRMAN, NOT THE DAMN SECRETARY. 671 00:28:12,859 --> 00:28:14,927 - BUT YOU WERE AWARE THAT AT LEAST ONE PARENT 672 00:28:14,927 --> 00:28:17,964 HAD COMPLAINED THAT MR. STREPEK HAD SEXUAL CONTACT WITH HIS SON. 673 00:28:17,964 --> 00:28:22,902 - I AM NOT AWARE OF THAT, AND I DON'T BELIEVE IT. 674 00:28:22,902 --> 00:28:24,436 - FORRESTER ACTED LIKE 675 00:28:24,436 --> 00:28:26,372 HE WAS TALKING TO A ROOM FULL OF BAD CHEESE. 676 00:28:26,372 --> 00:28:28,207 THE JURY'S GONNA LOVE TAKING HIM DOWN. 677 00:28:28,207 --> 00:28:30,042 WHERE'S VINCENT? 678 00:28:30,042 --> 00:28:32,044 - HE'S NOT HERE. 679 00:28:32,044 --> 00:28:34,981 - HE WAS. HE WAS RIGHT THERE. 680 00:28:34,981 --> 00:28:36,849 - WE'RE ON IT. 681 00:28:38,885 --> 00:28:41,120 [knocking at door] - VINCENT! 682 00:28:42,789 --> 00:28:45,324 VINCENT MORAN! - HEY. 683 00:28:45,324 --> 00:28:47,359 WHOA, WHOA, HEY, HEY, WHERE'S VINCENT? 684 00:28:47,359 --> 00:28:48,494 - HE SAID HIS NAME WAS FRED. 685 00:28:48,494 --> 00:28:51,230 - GOT HIM. 686 00:28:51,230 --> 00:28:55,868 SVU PORTABLE. I NEED A BUS AT THE DOVER HOTEL. 687 00:29:00,807 --> 00:29:02,108 - THEY PICKED VINCENT UP AT A DIVE HOTEL 688 00:29:02,108 --> 00:29:03,910 WITH A HOOKER AND SOME BAD COKE. 689 00:29:03,910 --> 00:29:05,544 - THE DOCTORS HOPE THAT HE'LL BE COHERENT BY TOMORROW. 690 00:29:05,544 --> 00:29:07,313 - THAT'S JUST TERRIFIC. - HEY, HE SCREWED UP. 691 00:29:07,313 --> 00:29:09,248 BUT IT SPEAKS TO YOUR CASE 'CAUSE OF WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM 692 00:29:09,248 --> 00:29:10,817 AT MANOR HILL. - WHAT HE SAYS HAPPENED. 693 00:29:10,817 --> 00:29:12,819 THERE'S NO RECORD OF HIS FATHER COMPLAINING, 694 00:29:12,819 --> 00:29:14,921 AND VINCENT'S CREDIBILITY IS SHOT NOW, EVEN WITH ME. 695 00:29:14,921 --> 00:29:16,055 WE NEED SOMETHING TANGIBLE. 696 00:29:16,055 --> 00:29:17,790 - WELL, WHAT ABOUT THE GONORRHEA? 697 00:29:17,790 --> 00:29:19,158 MEDICAL RECORDS PROVE THAT HE HAD IT. 698 00:29:19,158 --> 00:29:20,927 - DOESN'T PROVE WHO HE GOT IT FROM. 699 00:29:20,927 --> 00:29:21,727 - WHAT IF WE GET STREPEK'S MEDICAL RECORDS, 700 00:29:21,727 --> 00:29:23,062 SEE IF HE HAD IT AT THE SAME TIME? 701 00:29:23,062 --> 00:29:24,430 - THAT'S GOOD. 702 00:29:24,430 --> 00:29:26,565 THE JURY MIGHT MAKE THAT LEAP. 703 00:29:26,565 --> 00:29:28,567 BUT MEDICAL RECORDS ARE PRIVILEGED, EVEN AFTER DEATH. 704 00:29:28,567 --> 00:29:30,302 YOU NEED PERMISSION FROM STREPEK'S NEXT OF KIN 705 00:29:30,302 --> 00:29:31,804 IF YOU CAN EVEN FIND OUT WHO THAT IS. 706 00:29:31,804 --> 00:29:34,306 - WE'RE ON IT. 707 00:29:36,542 --> 00:29:38,845 - STREPEK'S ONLY LIVING RELATIVE 708 00:29:38,845 --> 00:29:40,546 IS A SECOND COUSIN. - AND? 709 00:29:40,546 --> 00:29:43,149 - AN AWKWARD CONVERSATION, BUT WE GOT THE RECORDS. 710 00:29:43,149 --> 00:29:45,151 STREPEK DID HAVE GONORRHEA 711 00:29:45,151 --> 00:29:47,987 THREE WEEKS BEFORE VINCENT MORAN WAS DIAGNOSED. 712 00:29:47,987 --> 00:29:49,822 - GONORRHEA-- THE GIFT THAT KEEPS GIVING. 713 00:29:49,822 --> 00:29:51,223 - SORRY TO INTERRUPT THE CELEBRATION. 714 00:29:51,223 --> 00:29:52,959 - MS. CALHOUN. - I UNDERSTAND YOU'RE LOOKING 715 00:29:52,959 --> 00:29:55,261 AT BENJAMIN STREPEK'S MEDICAL RECORDS. 716 00:29:55,261 --> 00:29:57,930 - THAT WAS FAST. - MANOR HILL IS BELOVED. 717 00:29:57,930 --> 00:30:00,332 YOU CAN'T USE THOSE RECORDS. THEY'RE PRIVILEGED. 718 00:30:00,332 --> 00:30:03,870 - NEXT OF KIN WAIVE PRIVILEGE. PLEASE COME AGAIN. 719 00:30:03,870 --> 00:30:06,572 - CPLR, SECTION 4504, SUBSECTION C. 720 00:30:06,572 --> 00:30:08,574 "NO ONE CAN WAIVE 721 00:30:08,574 --> 00:30:10,276 "A DEAD PERSON'S PATIENT/DOCTOR PRIVILEGE 722 00:30:10,276 --> 00:30:13,079 "WITH RESPECT TO RECORDS THAT WOULD DISGRACE 723 00:30:13,079 --> 00:30:14,881 THE MEMORY OF THE DECEDENT." 724 00:30:14,881 --> 00:30:17,884 HERE IS OUR MOTION TO THE SUPERVISING JUDGE. 725 00:30:17,884 --> 00:30:20,186 ALWAYS A PLEASURE. 726 00:30:22,388 --> 00:30:24,090 - YOU CAN'T SPEAK ILL OF THE DEAD 727 00:30:24,090 --> 00:30:26,158 BECAUSE THAT WOULD BE SPEAKING ILL OF THE DEAD? 728 00:30:26,158 --> 00:30:28,560 SHE'S GOTTA BE JOKING. - SHE'S NOT. IT'S A LAW. 729 00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:32,198 AN OBSCURE ONE, BUT A LAW. - SO WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO? 730 00:30:32,198 --> 00:30:34,066 - ARGUE THAT IT DOESN'T APPLY. 731 00:30:34,066 --> 00:30:36,635 - BUT WHAT STREPEK DID WAS DISGRACEFUL. 732 00:30:36,635 --> 00:30:39,238 - MAYBE NOT, IF WE CAN PUT THIS THING IN A DIFFERENT CONTEXT. 733 00:30:39,238 --> 00:30:41,573 YOU THINK IT WAS DISGRACEFUL. I THINK IT WAS DISGRACEFUL. 734 00:30:41,573 --> 00:30:43,910 THAT TEACHER THAT YOU INTERVIEWED, UH...TOMPKINS. 735 00:30:43,910 --> 00:30:45,611 HE SAID BACK IN THE DAY, SEX WITH STUDENTS 736 00:30:45,611 --> 00:30:48,981 WAS WARM AND AFFECTIONATE, NOT DISGRACEFUL. 737 00:30:48,981 --> 00:30:52,952 GET HIM TO TELL THAT TO THE JUDGE. 738 00:30:52,952 --> 00:30:55,321 - SO WE'RE GOING TO ARGUE THAT... 739 00:30:55,321 --> 00:30:58,390 RAPING BOYS IS MORALLY ACCEPTABLE. 740 00:30:58,390 --> 00:30:59,959 - RAPING BOYS. 741 00:30:59,959 --> 00:31:02,661 TOMPKINS SAID THAT IT WAS LOVING, CONSENSUAL SEX. 742 00:31:02,661 --> 00:31:04,931 - [laughs]. 743 00:31:04,931 --> 00:31:07,934 - LOSE THE BATTLE. WIN THE WAR. 744 00:31:14,206 --> 00:31:16,375 - I KNOW THAT TIMES HAVE CHANGED. 745 00:31:16,375 --> 00:31:20,412 WE ALL UNDERSTAND MORE NOW THAN WE DID THEN. 746 00:31:20,412 --> 00:31:22,648 I UNDERSTAND MORE NOW THAN I DID THEN. 747 00:31:22,648 --> 00:31:24,483 - HOW SO? 748 00:31:24,483 --> 00:31:27,119 - WELL, AT THE TIME, I FELT RELATIONSHIPS 749 00:31:27,119 --> 00:31:29,621 BETWEEN TEACHERS AND OLDER STUDENTS 750 00:31:29,621 --> 00:31:31,991 WERE NOT NECESSARILY WRONG 751 00:31:31,991 --> 00:31:33,692 IF ONE'S HEART WAS IN IT. 752 00:31:33,692 --> 00:31:36,162 MAYBE I WAS NAIVE. 753 00:31:36,162 --> 00:31:38,164 I DIDN'T MEAN TO HURT ANYONE. 754 00:31:38,164 --> 00:31:40,632 - BUT WAS THIS A COMMON ATTITUDE AT THE SCHOOL 755 00:31:40,632 --> 00:31:42,601 AMONG BOTH TEACHERS AND STUDENTS? 756 00:31:42,601 --> 00:31:46,072 - IT CERTAINLY WASN'T CONDEMNED THE WAY IT IS TODAY. 757 00:31:46,072 --> 00:31:48,140 - THANK YOU. - SO YOU'RE SAYING 758 00:31:48,140 --> 00:31:51,978 THAT THIS KIND OF THING WAS NOT DISGRACEFUL. 759 00:31:51,978 --> 00:31:55,047 - WELL, IT DIDN'T NECESSARILY SEEM SO, NO. 760 00:31:55,047 --> 00:31:56,615 - SO DID YOU ANNOUNCE IT PUBLICLY 761 00:31:56,615 --> 00:31:58,584 WHENEVER YOU HAD SEX WITH A STUDENT? 762 00:31:58,584 --> 00:31:59,718 - OF COURSE NOT. 763 00:31:59,718 --> 00:32:02,054 - IF IT WAS ALL HUNKY-DORY, WHY NOT? 764 00:32:02,054 --> 00:32:03,622 - IT WAS PRIVATE. 765 00:32:03,622 --> 00:32:05,624 - IT WAS WRONG. YOUR HONOR, 766 00:32:05,624 --> 00:32:08,560 THIS ARGUMENT IS PREPOSTEROUS ON ITS FACE. 767 00:32:08,560 --> 00:32:10,462 - WHAT'S NEXT? IS MR. BARBA 768 00:32:10,462 --> 00:32:12,231 GOING TO BRING IN A CANNIBAL 769 00:32:12,231 --> 00:32:15,167 TO TELL US HOW EATING PEOPLE IS WHOLESOME AND HEALTHY? 770 00:32:15,167 --> 00:32:16,502 - WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ATTITUDES TOWARD SEX 771 00:32:16,502 --> 00:32:18,170 THAT SHIFT OVER TIME 772 00:32:18,170 --> 00:32:20,506 AND THE ATTITUDE THAT MR. TOMPKINS IS DESCRIBING 773 00:32:20,506 --> 00:32:22,474 WAS APPARENTLY PREVALENT AT MANOR HILL ACADEMY. 774 00:32:22,474 --> 00:32:25,544 HOW ELSE TO EXPLAIN SO MANY UNREPORTED INCIDENTS 775 00:32:25,544 --> 00:32:27,679 OF TEACHER/STUDENT SEXUAL CONTACT? 776 00:32:27,679 --> 00:32:29,681 THEY WERE AS COMMON AS TRUST FUNDS. 777 00:32:29,681 --> 00:32:31,750 - SAVE IT FOR THE NEXT MARCH ON WALL STREET. 778 00:32:31,750 --> 00:32:33,986 - ALL RIGHT, MS. CALHOUN. I TAKE YOUR POINT. 779 00:32:33,986 --> 00:32:35,654 THE RELEASE OF THESE MEDICAL RECORDS-- 780 00:32:35,654 --> 00:32:37,323 NO MATTER HOW YOU SPIN THE ALLEGED ACTS-- 781 00:32:37,323 --> 00:32:39,758 WOULD BRING DISGRACE TO THE DECEASED. 782 00:32:39,758 --> 00:32:41,527 YOUR GRAND JURY CAN PROCEED, 783 00:32:41,527 --> 00:32:43,962 BUT WITHOUT MR. STREPEK'S MEDICAL RECORDS. 784 00:32:47,399 --> 00:32:49,668 - I'M SORRY. I'M SORRY FOR IT ALL. 785 00:32:54,706 --> 00:32:57,643 - WELL, THAT WAS ENLIGHTENING. 786 00:32:57,643 --> 00:32:59,645 - WE'RE NOT DONE WITH THIS. 787 00:32:59,645 --> 00:33:02,014 - OH, I THINK WE ARE. 788 00:33:02,014 --> 00:33:03,749 I'M SURE YOU'LL BE INTERESTED TO KNOW 789 00:33:03,749 --> 00:33:06,685 THAT THE SCHOOL WILL BE ISSUING A STATEMENT SHORTLY. 790 00:33:06,685 --> 00:33:09,721 - TAKING RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE CULTURE OF ABUSE 791 00:33:09,721 --> 00:33:12,124 AND THE DAMAGE IT CAUSED? 792 00:33:12,124 --> 00:33:14,626 - I DON'T KNOW THAT THERE WAS ANY CULTURE. 793 00:33:14,626 --> 00:33:16,662 THERE WAS ONE BAD APPLE. 794 00:33:16,662 --> 00:33:19,598 YOUR WITNESS. TOMPKINS. 795 00:33:19,598 --> 00:33:21,800 - SO YOU'RE GONNA SCAPEGOAT THE ONE PERSON 796 00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:24,403 WHO'S COME FORWARD--WHO NO ONE EVEN COMPLAINED ABOUT. 797 00:33:24,403 --> 00:33:26,605 - I'M SCAPEGOATING? 798 00:33:26,605 --> 00:33:28,640 YOU HEARD HIM ON THE STAND-- 799 00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:31,043 A SELF-CONFESSED PEDERAST. 800 00:33:31,043 --> 00:33:33,212 I'M... 801 00:33:33,212 --> 00:33:36,448 SHOCKED AND DISMAYED THAT HE WORKED FOR US. 802 00:33:36,448 --> 00:33:39,251 IT'S A TERRIBLE THING. 803 00:33:39,251 --> 00:33:42,788 IT'S VERY UPSETTING. 804 00:33:45,091 --> 00:33:48,460 - A NEWS BRIEF JUST POSTED BY THE LEDGER. 805 00:33:48,460 --> 00:33:50,096 "MANOR HILL HAS BEEN MADE AWARE 806 00:33:50,096 --> 00:33:52,731 "OF THE PEDOPHILE WHO TAUGHT THERE DECADES AGO. 807 00:33:52,731 --> 00:33:55,834 THE SCHOOL IS OUTRAGED THAT HE CAN'T BE PROSECUTED." 808 00:33:55,834 --> 00:33:57,703 OTHERWISE, EVERYTHING IS ALL GOOD THERE, 809 00:33:57,703 --> 00:34:00,272 ALWAYS HAS BEEN. - SMART PLAY. 810 00:34:00,272 --> 00:34:02,208 BURYING THE BIG STORY WITH THE LITTLE ONE. 811 00:34:02,208 --> 00:34:04,576 BARBA HAVE A PLAN TO GET PAST THIS? 812 00:34:04,576 --> 00:34:07,379 - HE SAYS HE'S OPEN TO SUGGESTIONS. 813 00:34:07,379 --> 00:34:09,581 - THAT WAS ONE OF THE FORMER STUDENTS 814 00:34:09,581 --> 00:34:11,383 TOMPKINS HAD A RELATIONSHIP WITH. 815 00:34:11,383 --> 00:34:13,685 HE SAW THE ARTICLE TOO, AND HE WANTS TO COME IN. 816 00:34:16,322 --> 00:34:18,090 - SO ARE YOU GONNA ARREST WALTER TOMPKINS? 817 00:34:18,090 --> 00:34:20,726 - NO. IT'S BEEN TOO LONG. 818 00:34:20,726 --> 00:34:24,396 I'M SO SORRY IF YOU WANTED TO TESTIFY AGAINST HIM. 819 00:34:24,396 --> 00:34:26,498 - AGAINST HIM? 820 00:34:26,498 --> 00:34:28,500 I WANT TO TESTIFY FOR HIM. 821 00:34:28,500 --> 00:34:32,604 - YOU SAID THAT HE HAD SEX WITH YOU WHEN YOU WERE A STUDENT. 822 00:34:32,604 --> 00:34:34,206 - I WAS 18. 823 00:34:34,206 --> 00:34:36,675 LOOK, I'D KNOWN I WAS GAY SINCE I WAS 6. 824 00:34:36,675 --> 00:34:38,677 IT'S VERY HARD. 825 00:34:38,677 --> 00:34:41,480 WALTER LET ME KNOW IT WAS OKAY. 826 00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:43,749 - WELL, WE'VE MET A LOT OF FORMER MANOR HILL STUDENTS 827 00:34:43,749 --> 00:34:46,318 WHO DON'T FEEL OKAY ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM THERE. 828 00:34:46,318 --> 00:34:49,355 - THEN THEY WEREN'T INVOLVED WITH WALT. 829 00:34:49,355 --> 00:34:52,191 BUT YOU'VE HEARD ABOUT THIS OTHER TEACHER, STREPEK? 830 00:34:52,191 --> 00:34:53,759 - THE NAME'S COME UP. 831 00:34:53,759 --> 00:34:55,761 - STREPEK. 832 00:34:55,761 --> 00:34:58,197 SOMEHOW...FOUND OUT ABOUT THE RELATIONSHIP 833 00:34:58,197 --> 00:35:00,632 BETWEEN ME AND TOMPKINS. 834 00:35:00,632 --> 00:35:03,569 I GUESS I SEEMED LIKE EASY PICKINGS. 835 00:35:03,569 --> 00:35:06,338 CAME ON TO ME. HE WAS PUSHING HIMSELF ON ME. 836 00:35:06,338 --> 00:35:08,740 I TOLD MY MOTHER WHAT STREPEK WAS UP TO. 837 00:35:08,740 --> 00:35:11,343 SHE WROTE A LETTER TO THE SCHOOL COMPLAINING ABOUT HIM. 838 00:35:11,343 --> 00:35:14,646 - DO YOU HAVE A COPY OF THAT LETTER? 839 00:35:14,646 --> 00:35:17,383 - NO. 840 00:35:19,151 --> 00:35:21,653 BUT I SAW THE LETTER THEY WROTE BACK. 841 00:35:21,653 --> 00:35:23,922 IT WAS SIGNED BY A MEMBER OF THE BOARD--FORRESTER. 842 00:35:23,922 --> 00:35:26,292 - BRETT FORRESTER. - YEAH. 843 00:35:26,292 --> 00:35:28,194 SON OF A BITCH. 844 00:35:28,194 --> 00:35:31,563 - IS THERE ANY CHANCE YOUR MOTHER KEPT THAT LETTER? 845 00:35:31,563 --> 00:35:33,799 - I DON'T KNOW. 846 00:35:40,606 --> 00:35:42,608 - YOU WROTE THIS TO A MOTHER OF A STUDENT WHO COMPLAINED 847 00:35:42,608 --> 00:35:44,443 THAT HE'D BEEN SEXUALLY ASSAULTED BY BENJAMIN STREPEK. 848 00:35:44,443 --> 00:35:46,312 "YOUR SON MUST HAVE MISUNDERSTOOD 849 00:35:46,312 --> 00:35:48,380 "OR EXAGGERATED WHAT HAPPENED 850 00:35:48,380 --> 00:35:50,382 "BETWEEN HIM AND THE TEACHER IN QUESTION. 851 00:35:50,382 --> 00:35:52,418 "MR. STREPEK'S CHARACTER AND BEHAVIOR 852 00:35:52,418 --> 00:35:54,353 ARE BEYOND REPROACH." 853 00:35:54,353 --> 00:35:56,288 - IF YOU TOLD THE GRAND JURY YOU WEREN'T AWARE 854 00:35:56,288 --> 00:35:59,525 OF COMPLAINTS AGAINST STREPEK, YOU COMMITTED PERJURY. 855 00:35:59,525 --> 00:36:00,959 - MAY I SEE THAT, PLEASE? 856 00:36:00,959 --> 00:36:04,830 28 YEARS AGO, AND YOU EXPECT ME TO REMEMBER THIS? 857 00:36:04,830 --> 00:36:06,898 - BUT YOU DO NOW? THAT'S CONVENIENT. 858 00:36:06,898 --> 00:36:08,967 - IT'S THE TRUTH. TRY TO PROVE IT ISN'T. 859 00:36:08,967 --> 00:36:10,669 AND THIS IS TRUE TOO. 860 00:36:10,669 --> 00:36:13,972 STREPEK WAS NOT A SEXUAL PREDATOR. 861 00:36:13,972 --> 00:36:16,375 - AND YOU KNOW THAT HOW EXACTLY? 862 00:36:16,375 --> 00:36:18,677 - YOU DIDN'T KNOW THE MAN. I KNEW HIM--MY SON KNEW HIM. 863 00:36:18,677 --> 00:36:20,512 - IS THIS YOUR SON NATHAN? - YES. 864 00:36:20,512 --> 00:36:22,248 I ASKED HIM ABOUT THE COMPLAINT AT THE TIME. 865 00:36:22,248 --> 00:36:25,684 HE TOLD ME THE BOY THE MADE IT WAS A CRYBABY, A SCREW-UP. 866 00:36:25,684 --> 00:36:28,220 - AND HE SAID THAT IT COULDN'T BE TRUE. 867 00:36:28,220 --> 00:36:30,256 - YES. MY SON WAS IN STREPEK'S CLASS. 868 00:36:30,256 --> 00:36:32,224 YOU THINK I WOULD HAVE LEFT HIM THERE 869 00:36:32,224 --> 00:36:33,825 IF THE MAN WAS A SEXUAL MOLESTER? 870 00:36:33,825 --> 00:36:35,761 - IS YOUR SON HERE NOW? 871 00:36:35,761 --> 00:36:37,963 - HE HAS AN APARTMENT IN OUR GUEST HOUSE. WHY? 872 00:36:37,963 --> 00:36:40,232 - NATHAN, THESE ARE DETECTIVES. 873 00:36:40,232 --> 00:36:42,000 - WE MET. 874 00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:44,002 A FEW NIGHTS AGO WITH CURT HASKINS 875 00:36:44,002 --> 00:36:45,737 AND SOME OTHER ALUMNI. 876 00:36:45,737 --> 00:36:48,307 - YEAH. I STILL DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU WERE DOING THERE. 877 00:36:52,911 --> 00:36:56,014 - WE'RE INVESTIGATING SEXUAL ASSAULTS AT YOUR SCHOOL. 878 00:36:56,014 --> 00:36:58,584 ONE NAME CAME UP AFTER YOU LEFT. 879 00:36:58,584 --> 00:37:00,886 - ONE OF YOUR OLD TEACHERS. MR. STREPEK. 880 00:37:00,886 --> 00:37:02,888 - I TOLD THEM WHAT YOU TOLD ME 881 00:37:02,888 --> 00:37:05,023 WHEN HE WAS FIRST FALSELY ACCUSED. 882 00:37:05,023 --> 00:37:07,025 - CAN YOU TELL US, NATHAN? 883 00:37:07,025 --> 00:37:09,928 - I DON'T REALLY REMEMBER. 884 00:37:09,928 --> 00:37:12,864 - BUT WE HEARD HE SEXUALLY ASSAULTED YOUR CLASSMATES. 885 00:37:12,864 --> 00:37:14,366 - THAT'S NOT TRUE. THAT NEVER HAPPENED. 886 00:37:14,366 --> 00:37:16,468 - REALLY? AND YOU HAVE NO IDEA 887 00:37:16,468 --> 00:37:20,005 WHY YOU WERE INVITED TO THE LITTLE REUNION THE OTHER NIGHT? 888 00:37:20,005 --> 00:37:23,008 - NOT A CLUE. IT WAS RIDICULOUS. 889 00:37:25,444 --> 00:37:29,681 - SO YOU LIVE HERE BY YOURSELF, NATHAN? 890 00:37:29,681 --> 00:37:31,049 - WHAT DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH ANYTHING? 891 00:37:31,049 --> 00:37:32,618 - YOUR SON DOESN'T WORK 892 00:37:32,618 --> 00:37:34,920 AT THE FAMILY BROKERAGE FIRM WITH YOU, 893 00:37:34,920 --> 00:37:36,922 DOES HE? - WHAT IS THE RELEVANCE 894 00:37:36,922 --> 00:37:38,590 OF THAT QUESTION? 895 00:37:38,590 --> 00:37:39,925 - WHAT DO YOU DO, NATHAN? 896 00:37:39,925 --> 00:37:42,027 - I--[ahem]. 897 00:37:42,027 --> 00:37:44,330 BEEN WRITING SOME SONGS. - NICE. 898 00:37:44,330 --> 00:37:46,532 CAN WE HEAR THEM ANYWHERE? 899 00:37:46,532 --> 00:37:49,000 - I HAVEN'T... PUBLISHED THEM YET. 900 00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:50,836 - I'LL INVITE YOU TO THE FIRST CONCERT. 901 00:37:50,836 --> 00:37:52,938 LEAVE. NOW. WE'RE DONE. 902 00:37:52,938 --> 00:37:54,806 - NOT QUITE. 903 00:37:54,806 --> 00:37:56,642 YOU KNOW, WHEN WE FIRST MET, MR. FORRESTER, 904 00:37:56,642 --> 00:38:00,879 YOU TOLD US THAT SOME PEOPLE LIVE DISAPPOINTING LIVES. 905 00:38:00,879 --> 00:38:03,649 - AND? - ARE YOU DISAPPOINTED? 906 00:38:03,649 --> 00:38:06,585 THAT NATHAN DIDN'T JOIN THE FAMILY FIRM, 907 00:38:06,585 --> 00:38:08,887 THAT HE WRITES SONGS HERE IN YOUR HOUSE 908 00:38:08,887 --> 00:38:10,822 THAT NOBODY WILL SING? 909 00:38:12,758 --> 00:38:17,363 - I REALLY DON'T SEE HOW THAT'S ANY OF YOUR CONCERN. 910 00:38:17,363 --> 00:38:19,064 - IT IS IF IT HAS TO DO WITH BENJAMIN STREPEK. 911 00:38:19,064 --> 00:38:21,600 - HE'S ALREADY TOLD YOU 912 00:38:21,600 --> 00:38:25,737 THE ANSWER TO THOSE RIDICULOUS CHARGES. 913 00:38:25,737 --> 00:38:29,841 - SO I'M GONNA ASK YOU ONE LAST TIME, NATHAN. 914 00:38:29,841 --> 00:38:32,844 ARE YOU SURE THAT MR. STREPEK 915 00:38:32,844 --> 00:38:34,413 DIDN'T RAPE ANY STUDENTS? 916 00:38:34,413 --> 00:38:36,582 - TELL THEM AGAIN, NATHAN, 917 00:38:36,582 --> 00:38:39,351 SO THEY'LL GET OUT OF HERE. 918 00:38:39,351 --> 00:38:42,588 - AND WHAT, DAD? 919 00:38:42,588 --> 00:38:44,022 NO, YOU'RE RIGHT, DAD. 920 00:38:44,022 --> 00:38:46,758 MUST SAVE THE GOOD NAME OF MANOR HILL. 921 00:38:46,758 --> 00:38:49,928 - THAT SCHOOL. MANOR HILL. 922 00:38:49,928 --> 00:38:52,531 THAT'S ALL YOUR FATHER EVER CARED ABOUT, ISN'T IT? 923 00:38:52,531 --> 00:38:55,567 - MEANT A LOT TO NATHAN, TOO. HE DID WELL THERE. 924 00:38:55,567 --> 00:39:00,372 - DID YOU, NATHAN? REALLY? 925 00:39:00,372 --> 00:39:04,075 - UNTIL, UH, UPPER SCHOOL, AND THEN, UH... 926 00:39:04,075 --> 00:39:06,712 I HAD MR. STREPEK. 927 00:39:06,712 --> 00:39:10,516 AND, UH, AFTER THAT, MY... 928 00:39:10,516 --> 00:39:11,950 GRADES KIND OF WENT TO HELL, 929 00:39:11,950 --> 00:39:16,422 AND SO DID A LOT OF OTHER THINGS. 930 00:39:16,422 --> 00:39:18,590 DID YOU EVER LOOK AT ME? 931 00:39:18,590 --> 00:39:22,060 DID YOU EVER NOTICE WHAT WAS REALLY HAPPENING TO ME? 932 00:39:22,060 --> 00:39:24,896 - HE WAS... A TOUGH TEACHER. 933 00:39:24,896 --> 00:39:26,698 HE CHALLENGED YOU. 934 00:39:26,698 --> 00:39:28,900 - YEAH, HE CHALLENGED ME. 935 00:39:28,900 --> 00:39:31,737 I COULDN'T TELL YOU, DAD, YOU'D JUST... 936 00:39:31,737 --> 00:39:34,005 CALL ME A FAIRY LIKE YOU DID THAT OTHER KID 937 00:39:34,005 --> 00:39:38,076 WHOSE MOTHER WROTE THE LETTER. 938 00:39:38,076 --> 00:39:39,545 AND THEN THE SCHOOL! 939 00:39:39,545 --> 00:39:43,081 IT WOULD HAVE HURT YOUR PRECIOUS SCHOOL. 940 00:39:47,719 --> 00:39:51,122 IT WAS A LONG TIME AGO. I DON'T REMEMBER. 941 00:39:53,992 --> 00:39:56,495 - [whispers] NATHAN. 942 00:40:06,505 --> 00:40:09,908 - STRANGE DAYS. THEY SENT A CAR FOR US. 943 00:40:09,908 --> 00:40:11,943 - HOW YOU DOING? 944 00:40:11,943 --> 00:40:13,879 - BETTER. - YOU COMING IN? 945 00:40:13,879 --> 00:40:16,948 - WE WOULDN'T MISS IT. 946 00:40:16,948 --> 00:40:19,951 - TODAY... 947 00:40:19,951 --> 00:40:23,955 OUR SCHOOL BEGINS A HEALING PROCESS. 948 00:40:23,955 --> 00:40:27,058 WE ARE GONNA TALK ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED HERE, 949 00:40:27,058 --> 00:40:29,761 TRY TO LEARN FROM IT, 950 00:40:29,761 --> 00:40:33,532 AND MAKE ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN THAT IT NEVER HAPPENS AGAIN. 951 00:40:33,532 --> 00:40:34,933 THIS IS NOT GOING TO BE EASY... 952 00:40:34,933 --> 00:40:37,102 - YOU HAPPY, DETECTIVE? 953 00:40:37,102 --> 00:40:39,638 - AS A MATTER OF FACT, I AM. 954 00:40:39,638 --> 00:40:41,139 - THE GRAND JURY COULD PROBABLY 955 00:40:41,139 --> 00:40:43,975 STILL INDICT SOME OF THESE PEOPLE FOR SOMETHING. 956 00:40:43,975 --> 00:40:47,245 - I CAN GET THE INDICTMENT. I'LL NEVER GET THE CONVICTION. 957 00:40:47,245 --> 00:40:50,248 BUT THAT WAS NEVER REALLY THE POINT, WAS IT? 958 00:40:50,248 --> 00:40:51,683 - THE CHAIRMAN OF OUR BOARD, MR. BRETT FORRESTER. 959 00:40:51,683 --> 00:40:53,685 MR. FORRESTER. 960 00:41:06,998 --> 00:41:09,935 - NOTHING CAN EVER UNDO THE DAMAGE 961 00:41:09,935 --> 00:41:11,803 THAT WAS DONE HERE. 962 00:41:15,841 --> 00:41:17,976 BUT WE WILL HELP AND SUPPORT THOSE 963 00:41:17,976 --> 00:41:21,680 WHO WERE VICTIMIZED. 964 00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:25,517 WE WILL LAUNCH A THOROUGH INVESTIGATION 965 00:41:25,517 --> 00:41:27,018 OF THOSE RESPONSIBLE. 966 00:41:36,161 --> 00:41:38,229 FOR WHATEVER IT'S WORTH, 967 00:41:38,229 --> 00:41:42,200 ON BEHALF OF MANOR HILL ACADEMY... 968 00:41:46,204 --> 00:41:49,274 I APOLOGIZE. 72021

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